Exodus 14 NKJV - The Red Sea Crossing - Now the LORD - Bible Gateway Exodus 14New King James Version (NKJV) The Red Sea Crossing 14 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.’ 4 Then I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, so that he will pursue them; and I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord.” And they did so. 5 Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people; and they said, “Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” 6 So he made ready his chariot and took his people with him.

7 Also, he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt with captains over every one of them. 8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; and the children of Israel went out with boldness. 9 So the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon. 10 And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. 11 Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? 12 Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’?

For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” 13 And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” 15 And the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. 16 But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. 17 And I indeed will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. So I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.

18 Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gained honor for Myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.” 19 And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them. 20 So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night. 21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

24 Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the Lord looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians. 25 And He took off[ a ] their chariot wheels, so that they drove them with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.” 26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.” 27 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. 29 But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

30 So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses. Footnotes: Exodus 14 NIV - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell - Bible Gateway Exodus 13 Exodus 15 Exodus 14New International Version (NIV) 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon. 3 Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’ 4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” So the Israelites did this.

5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!” 6 So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him. 7 He took six hundred of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them. 8 The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly. 9 The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen[ a ] and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon. 10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

12 Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!” 13 Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” 15 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. 16 Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. 17 I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. 18 The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.” 19 Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them.

The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them, 20 coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long. 21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, 22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. 23 The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. 24 During the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. 25 He jammed[ b ] the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites!

The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.” 26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.” 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward[ c ] it, and the Lord swept them into the sea. 28 The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived. 29 But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. 30 That day the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. 31 And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.

Footnotes: Crossing the Red Sea - Bible Story Summary and Analysis Exodus 14 Crossing the Red Sea - Story Summary: After suffering devastating plagues sent by God , the Pharaoh of Egypt decided to let the Hebrew people go, as Moses had asked. God told Moses he would get glory over Pharaoh and prove that the Lord is God. After the Hebrews left Egypt, the king changed his mind and was angry that he had lost his source of slave labor. He summoned his 600 best chariots, all the other chariots in the land, and marched his massive army in pursuit. The Israelites seemed to be trapped. Mountains stood on one side, the Red Sea in front of them. When they saw Pharaoh's soldiers coming, they were terrified. Grumbling against God and Moses, they said they would rather be slaves again than die in the desert. Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.

The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still." (Exodus 14:13-14, NIV ) The angel of God, in a pillar of cloud , stood between the people and the Egyptians, protecting the Hebrews. Then Moses stretched his hand out over the sea. The Lord caused a strong east wind to blow all night, parting the waters and turning the sea floor into dry land. During the night, the Israelites fled through the Red Sea, a wall of water to their right and to their left. The Egyptian army charged in after them. Watching the chariots race ahead, God threw the army into a panic, clogging their chariot wheels to slow them down. Once the Israelites were safe on the other side, God commanded Moses to stretch out his hand again. As morning returned, the sea rolled back in, covering the Egyptian army, its chariots and horses. Not one man survived. After witnessing this great miracle , the people believed in the Lord and his servant Moses. Points of Interest from the Crossing the Red Sea Story: The exact location of this miracle is unknown.

It was common practice among ancient kings not to record military defeats or to remove them from accounts of their country's history. Some scholars argue that the Israelites crossed the Reed Sea or a shallow, weedy lake, but the Bible account notes that the water was like a "wall" on both sides and that it "covered" the Egyptians. Despite being eyewitnesses to God's power in the crossing of the Red Sea, the Israelites did not trust God to help them conquer Canaan, so he set them wandering in the desert for 40 years until that generation was dead. The Israelites took with them the bones of Joseph , the Hebrew who had saved the entire country of Egypt some 400 years earlier with his God-given wisdom. After their ordeal in the desert, the 12 tribes , representing descendants of Joseph and his 11 brothers, reorganized. God finally let them enter Canaan, and they conquered that land, led by Moses' successor, Joshua . The Apostle Paul pointed out in 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 that the Red Sea crossing was a representation of New Testament baptism .

Question for Reflection: The God who parted the Red Sea, provided for the Israelites in the desert, and raised Jesus Christ from the dead is the same God we worship today. Will you put your faith in God to protect you too? • Bible Story Summary Index Jack Zavada, a career writer and contributor for About.com, is host to a Christian website for singles. Never married, Jack feels that the hard-won lessons he has learned may help other Christian singles make sense of their lives. His articles and ebooks offer great hope and encouragement. To contact him or for more information, visit Jack's Bio Page . Exodus 14 - ESV Bible Exodus 14 The Passover 12 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 f “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb g according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.

4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be h without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the i fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. 1 7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the j two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with k unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but l roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10 And m you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 In this manner you shall eat it: with n your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand.

And you shall eat it in haste. o It is the Lord's Passover. 12 For p I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on q all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: r I am the Lord. 13 s The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. 14 “This day shall be t for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a u statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. 15 v Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, w that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day you shall hold a x holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days.

But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. 17 And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for y on this very day I brought your z hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 18 a In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 b For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, b that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, c whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.” 21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves d according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.

22 Take a bunch of e hyssop and f dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch g the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. h None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 i For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on g the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and j will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. 24 You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. 25 And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, k as he has promised, you shall keep this service. 26 And l when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 you shall say, m ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people n bowed their heads and worshiped.

28 Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn 29 o At midnight the p Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, q from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was r a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. 31 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, s both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. 32 t Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!” The Exodus 33 u The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste.

For they said, “We shall all be dead.” 34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. 35 The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had v asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. 36 w And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that x they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians. 37 And the y people of Israel journeyed from z Rameses to Succoth, a about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38 A b mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds. 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because u they were thrust out of Egypt and c could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves. 40 The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.

41 At the end of d 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It was a night of watching by the Lord, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a e night of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout their generations. Institution of the Passover 43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, 44 but every slave 2 that is f bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 g No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. 46 It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and h you shall not break any of its bones. 47 i All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 j If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he k shall be as a native of the land.

But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 49 There shall be l one law for the native and for the j stranger who sojourns among you.” 50 All the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. 51 And on that very day the m Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their n hosts. Consecration of the Firstborn 13 The Lord said to Moses, 2 o “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.” The Feast of Unleavened Bread 3 Then Moses said to the people, p “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, q for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from this place. r No leavened bread shall be eaten. 4 Today, in the month of s Abib, you are going out.

5 And when the Lord brings you into t the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which u he swore to your fathers to give you, a land v flowing with milk and honey, w you shall keep this service in this month. 6 x Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. 7 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. 8 y You shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ 9 And it shall z be to you as a sign on your hand and as a a memorial z 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. 10 b You shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.

11 “When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, c as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you, 12 d you shall set apart to the Lord all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the Lord's. 13 e Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every f firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. 14 g And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, h ‘By a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of i slavery. 15 For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the j Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals.

Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all the males that first open the womb, but k all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’ 16 l It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for m by a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.” Pillars of Cloud and Fire 17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did n not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people o change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” 18 But God p led the people around 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. 19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph 1 had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, q “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.” 20 And r they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.

21 And s 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. 22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people. Crossing the Red Sea 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell the people of Israel to t turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between u Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ 4 And v I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, and I will w get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, x and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.

5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the y 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?” 6 So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, 7 and took z six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. 8 And v the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the people of Israel while a the people of Israel were going out defiantly. 9 The b Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them c encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon. 10 When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel d cried out to the Lord. 11 They e 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? 12 Is not this what f we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” 13 And Moses said to the people, g “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For h the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. 14 i The Lord will fight for you, and you have only j to be silent.” 15 The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. 16 k Lift up your staff, and k stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground. 17 And l I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and m I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.

18 And the Egyptians n shall know that I am the Lord, m when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.” 19 o Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, 20 coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night 1 without one coming near the other all night. 21 Then Moses k stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by p a strong east wind all night and q made the sea dry land, and the waters were r divided. 22 And s the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being t a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23 The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

24 And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, 25 clogging 2 their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the u Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.” 26 Then the Lord said to Moses, v “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” 27 w So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea x returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord y threw 3 the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. 28 The z waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, a not one of them remained. 29 But the b 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.

30 Thus the Lord c saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 d Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they e believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses. The Song of Moses 15 Then Moses and the people of Israel f sang this song to the Lord, saying, g “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider 1 he has thrown into the sea. 2 h The Lord is my strength and my i song, and he has become j my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, k my father's God, and l I will exalt him. 3 The Lord is m a man of war; n the Lord is his name. 4 o “Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen p officers were sunk in the Red Sea. 5 The q floods covered them; they r went down into the depths like a stone. 6 s Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, t shatters the enemy.

7 In the u greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it v consumes them like stubble. 8 At the w blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the x floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea. 9 The enemy said, y ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I z will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’ 10 You a blew with your wind; the b sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11 c “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in d glorious deeds, e doing wonders? 12 You stretched out f your right hand; the earth swallowed them. Miracles Red Sea Jonah - creation.com Red Sea Parting, Jonah, and miracles in general Published: 3 November 2013 (GMT+10) The Ten Commandments, 50th Anniversary Collection Paramount, 2006 What actually happened with some of the most dramatic miracles in the true history revealed in the Bible?

For that matter, why should we bother explaining anything taught in the Bible, unless we can explain everything? Matthew S. from Australia writes: I hope this is the correct place to post my question. I want to know why we (creationists) try and prove aspects of the Bible to be plausible if we can’t prove all of them. For example, we have to attribute the parting of the red sea to a miracle, however we try and explain how Jonah survived in a fish. Why do we bother explaining anything, if we can’t explain everything? Thank you for your questions, which I will answer under three headings. Red Sea parting Certainly the Red Sea parting was a stupendous event. This produced a dry strip over which the Israelites could flee from Pharaoh’s army (see also Could so many Israelites have crossed the Red Sea? ). In the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ that typifies theological liberalism, there are ideas that it was a very shallow strip of water a few inches deep. However, the text says that there was a ‘wall’ of water on both the left and right (Exodus 14:22).

The Hebrew word for ‘wall’ is chômāh (חומה), which is used to describe walls of a city, citadel, fortress, temple, and the like. 1 It must have been deep water to produce such walls. Also, one wonders how Pharaoh’s army could have drowned in a few inches of water. Although you say, “we (creationists)”, I’m not sure which creationists you speak for, when it comes to particular miracles. The Bible tells us what happened with the Red Sea Parting: 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. (Exodus 14:21) According to this clear text, the means God used to achieve his end (goal) of the Red Sea parting was a powerful air current flowing for many hours. It’s well known in physics and chemistry that one can often trade intensity of an effect (heat, electrical current, and in this case air flow) for time. Because of the long time frame, less intensity was needed. This would keep the wind bearable for the people on the ground.

Modern science has caught up with the Bible, since recent experiments suggest that a long and strong wind could indeed have formed a land bridge: Now computer simulations show that a stiff wind blowing from the east for 12 hours could have given the Israelites a land bridge that allowed them to escape Egypt over 3000 years ago.—New Scientist Now computer simulations show that a stiff wind blowing from the east for 12 hours could have given the Israelites a land bridge that allowed them to escape Egypt over 3000 years ago. The 5-kilometre width of the cleared mud flats might have offered enough space for a few hundred thousand Israelites to cross, but against winds raging at 100 kilometres per hour, they probably would have needed most of their 4-hour window to walk the 3 or 4-kilometres to the opposite shore. “Nobody’s going to enjoy it,” says Carl Drews of the National Center for Atmospheric Research at Boulder, Colorado, one of the researchers who has simulated the Israelite-friendly wind. “But if the alternative is to be killed by the pharaoh’s soldiers, they’d do it.

2 Furthermore, the ground there would not be that muddy, but rather sandy, so it has good drainage. Indeed, you can drive on some beaches during low tide. Daytona Beach in Florida is famous for car racing. Also, wind is very good for drying. 3 An east wind heated and dried by the Arabian Desert—from the east—would be even more effective. So I see no reason why this unique wind that God sent couldn’t have done at least as much as New Scientist admitted. The justification for a secular journal to publish such an article may have been the mistaken belief that such a suggestion serves to downplay the miraculous. However this is not so. Scripture makes it clear that God used the wind to help accomplish His purposes, and it was a unique wind, possibly miraculously originated. See also The ten plagues of Egypt: Miracles or ‘Mother Nature’? There is nothing wrong with scientific explanations—as long as they are consistent with the biblical description (see Materialist ‘defence’ of Bible fails ). Indeed, since the Bible reveals only the wind as God’s means, we should look to the aerodynamic properties of the air flow to explain the results.

Similarly, when it comes to the Flood, it is logical to explain the rock layers, fossils, and erosion by the hydrodynamic properties of water, rather than look for other miracles. There is a compromising view that tries to mix long ages and a global Flood called the ‘tranquil flood’ theory. This proposes that although the Bible states that God used water to drown all the animals, the water somehow had no other effect and left no traces—contrary to 2 Peter 3:3–5. Actually, this view is irrational to anyone with an inkling of the destructive power of large amounts of moving water. Indeed, it would require a stupendous miracle to keep the Flood tranquil, and the Bible provides no hint of this. However, to be frank, some Bible commentators have adopted an idea that is similar in principle, which I call the ‘tranquil wind’ theory. That is, just as the tranquil flood proponents underestimate the power of water and thus its explanatory power, the tranquil wind supporters fail to understand what wind can do. E.g.

the great commentary by John Gill says: No wind of itself, without the exertion and continuance of almighty power, in a miraculous way, could have so thrown the waves of the sea on heaps, and retained them so long, that such a vast number of people should pass through it as on dry land; though this was an instrument Jehovah made use of, and that both to divide the waters of the sea, and to dry and harden the bottom of it, and make it fit for travelling, as follows: and made the sea dry land; or made the bottom of it dry, so that it could be trod and walked upon with ease, without sinking in, sticking fast, or slipping about, which was very extraordinary: and the waters were divided; or “after the waters were divided” … 4 Note: Gill resorts to additional miracles because he can’t think of how water could have been held back so long. The text says nothing about God using a wind plus other miracles, and neither does the text limit the power of the wind. Indeed, if we want to go down that route, then the strong and very persistent wind that God sent was almost incidental, and one wonders why it was sent at all.

Of course, God could have parted the Red Sea by a pure miracle. But the issue is not what God could have done, but what the Bible says He did. And the text says that He used a wind. Indeed, God could have instantaneously teleported the Israelites to the Promised Land and caused the Egyptian army to vanish. But He did not. Similarly, to wipe out the evil civilization of Noah’s Day, God did not have to use the pre-existing waters of the “fountains of the great deep” and rain (Genesis 7:11), but could have created the water miraculously. For that matter, He could have simply levitated Noah above the water rather than bothered with the Ark, or popped the evil people out of existence. But His chosen means in both cases were signs that also maintained a continuity in the way He upholds nature, and provided a lasting lesson.

When I hear Christians say that Jonah really wasn’t swallowed by a fish, because that’s just impossible, I consider the words of Jesus in Matthew 12:40: ‘For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.’—Randy Alcorn Jonah and the great sea creature When it comes to this miracle, Jesus affirmed that it really did happen, and was just as real as His future resurrection. So it would be most problematic for any Christians to disagree with Him (compare Theistic Evolution and the Kenotic Heresy ). As Dr Randy Alcorn pointed out : When I hear Christians say that Jonah really wasn’t swallowed by a fish, because that’s just impossible, I consider the words of Jesus in Matthew 12:40 : ‘For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.’ So I guess if it wasn’t true about Jonah, we don’t need to believe in Christ’s literal death, burial, and resurrection either, right?

And more to the point, why should we believe Christ’s claim to be the truth and speak the truth and ‘I and the Father are one’ if He naively believed in what was false—that Jonah was actually swallowed by a fish? Furthermore, Jesus continued (Matthew 12:41): The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here. If the Ninevites really hadn’t repented, then how could this be an example for the Israelites of Jesus’s day to follow? This account is good support for a miraculous event—why would a Hebrew prophet be able to scare the most powerful nation of its day, Assyria, into such abject repentance? However, if it had become widely known that Jonah had been vomited out of a huge sea creature, this might have been a sign that Jonah was an emissary from the almighty God. 5 About what the fish was, the Hebrew phrase in Jonah 1:17 is dāg gādôl (דג גדול).

Gādôl is the normal word for ‘great’, including magnitude, number, fear, importance, or age. 6 Dāg is the normal word for ‘fish’, which was any generic swimming creature. The Septuagint (LXX), the Greek translation made in the 2nd century BC, renders the phrase based on the root words κήτος (kētos) and μέγας (megas). The New Testament here follows the LXX in using kētos. Megas (and megalo–) means ‘large’, and this is found in many English words today. Kētos gives rise to the English word ‘cetacean’, meaning whale, dolphin, or porpoise. This would explain the KJV translation ‘whale’, which was also the largest sea creature of which they were aware. However, Kētos itself means any huge sea creature. 7 While there are a number of both living and extinct large sea creatures that could swallow a man whole, the text says that YHWH ‘appointed’ or ‘prepared’ the great sea creature.

The Hebrew verb is mānā’ (מנא), which is used several times in the book of Jonah : And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. ( 1:17 ) Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head … ( 4:6 ). But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered ( 4:7 ). So as we said in Jonah and the great fish : The words imply either a special act of creation, or of modification of an existing sea creature to accommodate Jonah safely. The Apostle Peter didn’t say, ‘Give an answer only if you are able to provide answers to all possible questions.’ Why we should try to explain biblical teachings Your last line is highly problematic. If your argument were applied consistently, we would need to give up science too. Why should we try to prove one scientific claim unless we can prove them all (leaving aside for the moment about whether science proves or disproves something ). For that matter, why should you accept that a particular $10 note is genuine unless you can prove that every possible $10 note is?

Also, there is an important apologetic angle: we can ask the biblioskeptics: you claim that the biblical miracle X is impossible. But unless you can prove that all biblical miracles are impossible, why do you waste your time trying to disprove this particular miracle X? If we can show that this miracle is plausible, it shows that the skeptics’ dogmatism is misplaced, and thus his case against miracles in general. See also Miracles and science . It’s also important to note that miracle claims are really the province of history rather than science . Finally, the Apostle Peter commanded Christians: “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” (1 Peter 3:15). He didn’t say, “Give an answer only if you are able to provide answers to all possible questions.” Indeed, we could not, because that would require infinite knowledge and wisdom, and this belongs only to God, not to any creature.

Related Articles NTEB: Parting of the Red Sea Agrees With Natural Laws Parting of the Red Sea Agrees With Natural Laws Proof Of Winds Strong Enough To Part The Red Sea Read the archives: Share "Mother Earth could have parted the Red Sea, hatching the great escape described in the biblical book of Exodus, a new study finds.A strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have swept water off a bend where an ancient river is believed to have merged with a coastal lagoon along the Mediterranean Sea, said study team member Carl Drews of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. While archaeologists and Egyptologists have found little evidence that any events described in Exodus actually happened, the study outlines a perfect storm that could have led to the 3,000-year-old escape." A strong wind from the east could push back waters from two ancient basins. Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller. A strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have swept water off a bend where an ancient river is believed to have merged with a coastal lagoon along the Mediterranean Sea, said study team member Carl Drews of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

While archaeologists and Egyptologists have found little evidence that any events described in Exodus actually happened, the study outlines a perfect storm that could have led to the 3,000-year-old escape. "People have always been fascinated by this Exodus story, wondering if it comes from historical facts," Drews said. "What this study shows is that the description of the waters parting indeed has a basis in physical laws." Drew and his colleagues used models that showed that a wind of 63 mph (101 kph), lasting for 12 hours, would have pushed back waters estimated to be 6 feet (1.8 meters) deep. This would have exposed mud flats for four hours, creating a dry passage about 2 to 2.5 miles (3.2 to 4 kilometers) long and 3 miles (4.8 km) wide.

To match the account in the Bible, the water would have to be pushed back into both the lake and the channel of the river, creating barriers of water on both the lake and the channel of the river, creating barriers of water on both sides of newly exposed mud flats, which is exactly what the models show could have happened." source - Our Amazing Planet Proof that the bible is true is everywhere Did you get a churckle, as I did, at how this story began? That "mother earth" could have parted the Red Sea? The universe, and the earth, are simply part of the incredible creation that the Lord God has created for us. But what is great about this story is that it shows that there is so much proof in the world of the truth of the bible, that even scientists who deny God are forced at times to see that there is evidence for the proof of these things. The bible also instructs us on how everything started, like this - "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." Genesis 1: 1-3 There is no "mother nature" who has power , but Nature, that God created, is imbued with some of the most awesome power ever conceived. Let's take a look at the biblical account of Moses and the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea. God traps the children of Israel at the Red Sea, or did He? "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They [are] entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I [am] the LORD.

And they did so." Exodus 14: 1-4 So here we have the story of how God allowed Moses and the children of Israel to do something which would seem pretty stupid to our modern-day military planners. He allowed them to be "trapped" between Pharaoh's rapidly-advancing armies and the Red Sea. But the bible tells us that "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness." I Corinthians 3:19 . And that is exactly what God had in mind for Pharaoh, taking him in by Pharaoh's own craftiness. Pharaoh takes it on the chin, lights out "And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to them], but it gave light by night [to these]: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

¶ And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry [land], and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry [ground]: and the waters [were] a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, [even] all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen." Exodus 14: 19-23 God must be so relieved that science now says the parting of the Red Sea by wind was possible. The wind doth blow, and blow...all night long I think it's awesome that the writer of the Red Sea story at top of this page has safely concluded that it is indeed possible for a strong wind to blow all night long with enough strength to actually cause the water of the Red Sea to part long enough for the children of Israel to walk across on dry land. And I also like the charts, graphs and fancy computer computations they used to figure it out. But guess what?

Lovers of God's Word already knew that by faith, just like we know that everything in the bible is 100% true and trustworthy. The last book of the bible, Revelation, was written in 96 AD. Here we are now in 2010 AD. It's nice to see science is catching up with what God has already revealed 2,000 years ago. Click here to visit the NTEB Science and the Bible Archive! The NTEB Science and the Bible Series - #1 © 2010 NOW THE END BEGINS. All rights reserved Computers show how wind could have parted Red Sea - BBC News BBC News Computers show how wind could have parted Red Sea 21 September 2010 Read more about sharing. Close share panel Media captionComputer simulations show how the movement of wind could have parted the waters of the Red Sea New computer simulations have shown how the parting of the Red Sea, as described in the Bible, could have been a phenomenon caused by strong winds. The account in the Book of Exodus describes how the waters of the sea parted, allowing the Israelites to flee their Egyptian pursuers.

Simulations by US scientists show how the movement of wind could have opened up a land bridge at one location. This would have enabled people to walk across exposed mud flats to safety. The results are published in the open-access journal Plos One. The researchers show that a strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have pushed water back at a bend where an ancient river is believed to have merged with a coastal lagoon. Image caption 63mph winds from the east could have pushed the water back at an ancient river bend With the water pushed back into both waterways, a land bridge would have opened at the bend, enabling people to walk across exposed mud flats to safety. As soon as the wind died down, the waters would have rushed back in. The study is based on a reconstruction of the likely locations and depths of Nile delta waterways, which have shifted considerably over time. "The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus," said the study's lead author Carl Drews, from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The parting of the waters can be understood through fluid dynamics.

The wind moves the water in a way that's in accordance with physical laws, creating a safe passage with water on two sides and then abruptly allowing the water to rush back in." The study is part of a larger research project by Mr Drews into the impacts of winds on water depths, including the extent to which Pacific Ocean typhoons can drive storm surges. By pin-pointing a possible site south of the Mediterranean Sea for the crossing, the study also could be of benefit to archaeologists seeking to research the account. A way through In the Book of Exodus, Moses and the fleeing Israelites became trapped between the Pharaoh's advancing chariots and a body of water that has been variously translated as the Red Sea or the Sea of Reeds. Image caption The Biblical account says that, as the Pharaoh's army followed, the waters rushed in In a divine miracle, the account says, a mighty east wind blew all night, splitting the waters and leaving a passage of dry land with walls of water on both sides. The Israelites were able to flee to the other shore. But when the Egyptian Pharaoh's army attempted to pursue them in the morning, the waters rushed back and drowned the soldiers.

Other scientists have also sought to explain the account through natural processes. Some have speculated that a tsunami could have caused waters to retreat and advance rapidly. But the scientists behind the latest research point out that such an event would not have caused the gradual overnight divide of the waters or have been associated with winds. Other researchers have focused on a phenomenon known as "wind setdown," in which a particularly strong and persistent wind can lower water levels in one area while piling up water downwind.

Question: Which book of the Bible tells of the parting of the Red Sea?
Answer: EXODUS