Exodus 14:21
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21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.(A)
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Isaiah 63:12
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12 who caused his glorious arm
to march at the right hand of Moses,
who divided the waters before them
to make for himself an everlasting name,(A)
Exodus 15:8
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8 At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up;
the floods stood up in a heap;
the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.(A)
Psalm 66:6
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6 He turned the sea into dry land;
they passed through the river on foot.
There we rejoiced in him,(A)
Psalm 78:13
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13 He divided the sea and let them pass through it
and made the waters stand like a heap.(A)
Psalm 74:13
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13 You divided the sea by your might;
you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.(A)
Nehemiah 9:11
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11 And you divided the sea before them, so that they passed through the sea on dry land, but you threw their pursuers into the depths like a stone into mighty waters.(A)
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Joshua 4:23
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23 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea,[a] which he dried up for us until we crossed over,(A)
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- 4.23 Or Sea of Reeds
Isaiah 51:10
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10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the sea a way
for the redeemed to cross over?(A)
Psalm 136:13
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- 136.13 Or Sea of Reeds
Isaiah 51:15
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15 For I am the Lord your God,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
the Lord of hosts is his name.(A)
Psalm 114:3-5
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3 The sea looked and fled;
Jordan turned back.(A)
4 The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.(B)
5 Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
Psalm 106:7-10
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7 Our ancestors, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wonderful works;
they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love
but rebelled against the Most High[a] at the Red Sea.[b](A)
8 Yet he saved them for his name’s sake,
so that he might make known his mighty power.(B)
9 He rebuked the Red Sea,[c] and it became dry;
he led them through the deep as through a desert.(C)
10 So he saved them from the hand of the foe
and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.(D)
Job 26:12
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12 By his power he stilled the Sea;
by his understanding he struck down Rahab.(A)
Joshua 3:13-16
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13 When the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan flowing from above shall be cut off; they shall stand in a single heap.”(A)
14 When the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests bearing the ark of the covenant were in front of the people. 15 Now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest. So when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the edge of the water,(B) 16 the waters flowing from above stood still, rising up in a single heap far off at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, while those flowing toward the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea,[a] were wholly cut off. Then the people crossed over opposite Jericho.(C)
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- 3.16 Heb Salt Sea
Exodus 14:16
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16 But you lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the Israelites may go into the sea on dry ground.(A)
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