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Then
Moses and the children of
Israel sang this song to The LORD, and said,"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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Yah is my strength and song.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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He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea.His
chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
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The deeps cover them.They went down into the depths like a stone.
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Your right hand, The LORD, is glorious in power.Your right hand, The LORD, dashes the enemy in pieces.
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In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
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With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up.The floods stood upright as a heap.The deeps were congealed in the
heart of the sea.
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The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder.My desire shall be satisfied on them.I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
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You blew with your wind.The sea covered them.They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
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Who is like you, The LORD, among the gods?Who is like you, glorious in holiness,fearful in praises, doing wonders?
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You stretched out your right hand.The
earth swallowed them.
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"You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed.You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
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The peoples have heard.They tremble.Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
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Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab.All the inhabitants of
Canaan have melted away.
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Terror and dread falls on them.By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone-until your people pass over, The LORD,until the people you have purchased pass over.
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You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,the place, The LORD, which you have made for yourself to
dwell in;the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
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The LORD shall reign forever and ever."
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For 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.
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Miriam 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.
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Miriam answered 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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Moses 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.
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When they came to Marah, they couldn't
drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called
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The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
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Then 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; +
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and he 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."
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They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. +
Ex 15:1-27. SONG OF MOSES.
1. Then sang Moses and the children of Israel--The scene of this thanksgiving song is supposed to have been at the landing place on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, at Ayoun Musa, "the fountains of Moses." They are situated somewhat farther northward along the shore than the opposite point from which the Israelites set out. But the line of the people would be extended during the passage, and one extremity of it would reach as far north as these fountains, which would supply them with water on landing. The time when it was sung is supposed to have been the morning after the passage. This song is, by some hundred years, the oldest poem in the world. There is a sublimity and beauty in the language that is unexampled. But its unrivalled superiority arises not solely from the splendor of the diction. Its poetical excellencies have often drawn forth the admiration of the best judges, while the character of the event commemorated, and its being prompted by divine inspiration, contribute to give it an interest and sublimity peculiar to itself.
I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously--Considering the state of servitude in which they had been born and bred, and the rude features of character which their subsequent history often displays, it cannot be supposed that the children of Israel generally were qualified to commit to memory or to appreciate the beauties of this inimitable song. But they might perfectly understand its pervading strain of sentiment; and, with the view of suitably improving the occasion, it was thought necessary that all, old and young, should join their united voices in the rehearsal of its words. As every individual had cause, so every individual gave utterance to his feelings of gratitude.