Exodus 15

²The LORD is my strength and song.

³The LORD is a man of war.

⁴He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea.

⁵The deeps cover them.

⁶Your right hand, LORD, is glorious in power.

⁷In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.

⁸With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up.

⁹The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder.

¹⁰You blew with your wind.

¹¹Who is like you, LORD, among the gods?

¹²You stretched out your right hand.

¹³“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed.

¹⁴The peoples have heard.

¹⁵Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.

¹⁶Terror and dread falls on them.

¹⁷You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,

¹⁸The LORD will reign forever and ever.”

¹⁹For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.

²⁰Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

²¹Miriam answered them,

²²Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

²³When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

²⁴The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

²⁵Then he cried to the LORD. The LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.

²⁶He said, “If you will diligently listen to the LORD your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you.”

²⁷They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.