⁶ When I brought your people out of Egypt, you came to the sea,^(A) and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen^[a](B) as far as the Red Sea.^[b](C)

⁷ But they cried^(A) to the Lord for help, and he put darkness^(B) between you and the Egyptians; he brought the sea over them and covered them.^(C) You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians.^(D) Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.^(E)