Exodus:13-15
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The LORD said to Moses ,
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Consecrate to me all the first-born ;
whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel ,
both of man and of beast ,
is mine ."
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And Moses said to the people , "
Remember this day ,
in which you came out from Egypt ,
out of the house of bondage ,
for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place ;
no leavened bread shall be eaten .
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This day you are to go forth ,
in the month of Abib .
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And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites ,
the Hittites ,
the Amorites ,
the Hivites ,
and the Jeb '
usites ,
which he swore to your fathers to give you ,
a land flowing with milk and honey ,
you shall keep this service in this month .
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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread ,
and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD .
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Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days ;
no leavened bread shall be seen with you ,
and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory .
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And you shall tell your son on that day , `
It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt .'
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And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes ,
that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth ;
for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt .
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You shall therefore keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year .
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And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites ,
as he swore to you and your fathers ,
and shall give it to you ,
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you shall set apart to the LORD all that first opens the womb .
All the firstlings of your cattle that are males shall be the LORD '
s .
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Every firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb ,
or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck .
Every first-born of man among your sons you shall redeem .
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And when in time to come your son asks you , `
What does this mean ?'
you shall say to him , `
By strength of hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt ,
from the house of bondage .
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For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go ,
the LORD slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt ,
both the first-born of man and the first-born of cattle .
Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all the males that first open the womb ;
but all the first-born of my sons I redeem .'
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It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes ;
for by a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt ."
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When Pharaoh let the people go ,
God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines ,
although that was near ;
for God said , "
Lest the people repent when they see war ,
and return to Egypt ."
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But God led the people round by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea .
And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle .
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And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him ;
for Joseph had solemnly sworn the people of Israel ,
saying , "
God will visit you ;
then you must carry my bones with you from here ."
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And they moved on from Succoth ,
and encamped at Etham ,
on the edge of the wilderness .
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And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way ,
and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light ,
that they might travel by day and by night ;
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the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people .
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Then the LORD said to Moses ,
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Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-ha-hi '
roth ,
between Migdol and the sea ,
in front of Ba '
al-ze '
phon ;
you shall encamp over against it ,
by the sea .
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For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel , `
They are entangled in the land ;
the wilderness has shut them in .'
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And I will harden Pharaoh '
s heart ,
and he will pursue them and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host ;
and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD ."
And they did so .
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When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled ,
the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people ,
and they said , "
What is this we have done ,
that we have let Israel go from serving us ?"
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So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him ,
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and took six hundred picked chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them .
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And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt and he pursued the people of Israel as they went forth defiantly .
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The Egyptians pursued them ,
all Pharaoh '
s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army ,
and overtook them encamped at the sea ,
by Pi-ha-hi '
roth ,
in front of Ba '
al-ze '
phon .
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When Pharaoh drew near ,
the people of Israel lifted up their eyes ,
and behold ,
the Egyptians were marching after them ;
and they were in great fear .
And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD ;
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and they said to Moses , "
Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness ?
What have you done to us ,
in bringing us out of Egypt ?
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Is not this what we said to you in Egypt , `
Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians '?
For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness ."
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And Moses said to the people , "
Fear not ,
stand firm ,
and see the salvation of the LORD ,
which he will work for you today ;
for the Egyptians whom you see today ,
you shall never see again .
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The LORD will fight for you ,
and you have only to be still ."
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The LORD said to Moses , "
Why do you cry to me ?
Tell the people of Israel to go forward .
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Lift up your rod ,
and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it ,
that the people of Israel may go on dry ground through the sea .
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And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them ,
and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host ,
his chariots ,
and his horsemen .
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And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD ,
when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh ,
his chariots ,
and his horsemen ."
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Then the angel of God who went before the host of Israel moved and went behind them ;
and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them ,
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coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel .
And there was the cloud and the darkness ;
and the night passed without one coming near the other all night .
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Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ;
and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night ,
and made the sea dry land ,
and the waters were divided .
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And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground ,
the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left .
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The Egyptians pursued ,
and went in after them into the midst of the sea ,
all Pharaoh '
s horses ,
his chariots ,
and his horsemen .
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And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians ,
and discomfited the host of the Egyptians ,
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clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily ;
and the Egyptians said , "
Let us flee from before Israel ;
for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians ."
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Then the LORD said to Moses , "
Stretch out your hand over the sea ,
that the water may come back upon the Egyptians ,
upon their chariots ,
and upon their horsemen ."
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So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea ,
and the sea returned to its wonted flow when the morning appeared ;
and the Egyptians fled into it ,
and the LORD routed the Egyptians in the midst of the sea .
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The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea ;
not so much as one of them remained .
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But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea ,
the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left .
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Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians ;
and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore .
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And Israel saw the great work which the LORD did against the Egyptians ,
and the people feared the LORD ;
and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses .
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Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD ,
saying , "
I will sing to the LORD ,
for he has triumphed gloriously ;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea .
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The LORD is my strength and my song ,
and he has become my salvation ;
this is my God ,
and I will praise him ,
my father '
s God ,
and I will exalt him .
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The LORD is a man of war ;
the LORD is his name .
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Pharaoh '
s chariots and his host he cast into the sea ;
and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea .
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The floods cover them ;
they went down into the depths like a stone .
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Thy right hand ,
O LORD ,
glorious in power ,
thy right hand ,
O LORD ,
shatters the enemy .
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In the greatness of thy majesty thou overthrowest thy adversaries ;
thou sendest forth thy fury ,
it consumes them like stubble .
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At the blast of thy nostrils the waters piled up ,
the floods stood up in a heap ;
the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea .
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The enemy said , `
I will pursue ,
I will overtake ,
I will divide the spoil ,
my desire shall have its fill of them .
I will draw my sword ,
my hand shall destroy them .'
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Thou didst blow with thy wind ,
the sea covered them ;
they sank as lead in the mighty waters .
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Who is like thee ,
O LORD ,
among the gods ?
Who is like thee ,
majestic in holiness ,
terrible in glorious deeds ,
doing wonders ?
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Thou didst stretch out thy right hand ,
the earth swallowed them .
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Thou hast led in thy steadfast love the people whom thou hast redeemed ,
thou hast guided them by thy strength to thy holy abode .
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The peoples have heard ,
they tremble ;
pangs have seized on the inhabitants of Philistia .
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Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed ;
the leaders of Moab ,
trembling seizes them ;
all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away .
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Terror and dread fall upon them ;
because of the greatness of thy arm ,
they are as still as a stone ,
till thy people ,
O LORD ,
pass by ,
till the people pass by whom thou hast purchased .
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Thou wilt bring them in ,
and plant them on thy own mountain ,
the place ,
O LORD ,
which thou hast made for thy abode ,
the sanctuary ,
O LORD ,
which thy hands have established .
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The LORD will reign for ever and ever ."
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For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea ,
the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them ;
but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea .
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Then Miriam ,
the prophetess ,
the sister of Aaron ,
took a timbrel in her hand ;
and all the women went out after her with timbrels and dancing .
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And Miriam sang to them : "
Sing to the LORD ,
for he has triumphed gloriously ;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea ."
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Then Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea ,
and they went into the wilderness of Shur ;
they went three days in the wilderness and found no water .
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When they came to Marah ,
they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter ;
therefore it was named Marah .
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And the people murmured against Moses ,
saying , "
What shall we drink ?"
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And he cried to the LORD ;
and the LORD showed him a tree ,
and he threw it into the water ,
and the water became sweet .
There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them ,
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saying , "
If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God ,
and do that which is right in his eyes ,
and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes ,
I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians ;
for I am the LORD ,
your healer ."
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Then they came to Elim ,
where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees ;
and they encamped there by the water .
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They set out from Elim ,
and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin ,
which is between Elim and Sinai ,
on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt .
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