⁸ So the Lord brought us out of Egypt^(A) with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,^(B) with great terror and with signs and wonders.^(C)

³⁴ Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation,^(A) by testings,^(B) by signs^(C) and wonders,^(D) by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,^(E) or by great and awesome deeds,^(F) like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

¹⁶ Raise your staff^(A) and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water^(B) so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. ¹⁷ I will harden the hearts^(C) of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them.^(D) 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^(E) when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.”

¹⁹ Then the angel of God,^(F) who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud^(G) also moved from in front and stood behind^(H) them, ²⁰ coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness^(I) 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^(J) over the sea,^(K) and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind^(L) and turned it into dry land.^(M) The waters were divided,^{(N) 22} and the Israelites went through the sea^(O) on dry ground,^(P) with a wall^(Q) of water on their right and on their left.

²³ The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen^(R) followed them into the sea. ²⁴ During the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud^(S) at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.^{(T) 25} He jammed^[a] 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^(U) for them against Egypt.”^(V)

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.^(W) The Egyptians were fleeing toward^[b] it, and the Lord swept them into the sea.^{(X) 28} The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea.^(Y) Not one of them survived.^(Z)

²⁹ But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground,^(AA) with a wall^(AB) of water on their right and on their left. ³⁰ That day the Lord saved^(AC) 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^(AD) of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared^(AE) the Lord and put their trust^(AF) in him and in Moses his servant.

³ Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt,^(A) out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand.^(B) Eat nothing containing yeast.^(C)

⁵¹ And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt^(A) by their divisions.^(B)