⁸ And they set out from before Hahiroth^[a] and ^(A)passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they ^(B)went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.

Bitter Water Made Sweet

²² Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of ^(A)Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. ²³ When they came to ^(B)Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.^{[a] 24} And the people ^(C)grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” ²⁵ And he ^(D)cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log,^[b] and he ^(E)threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.

There the Lord^[c] made for them a statute and a rule, and there he ^(F)tested them, ²⁶ saying, ^(G)“If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the ^(H)diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, ^(I)your healer.”

²¹ Then Moses ^(A)stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by ^(B)a strong east wind all night and ^(C)made the sea dry land, and the waters were ^(D)divided. ²² And ^(E)the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being ^(F)a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. ²³ The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. ²⁴ And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, ²⁵ clogging^[a] their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the ^(G)Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”

²⁶ Then the Lord said to Moses, ^(H)“Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” ^27 (I)So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea ^(J)returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord ^(K)threw^[b] the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. ²⁸ The ^(L)waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, ^(M)not one of them remained. ²⁹ But the ^(N)people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

³⁰ Thus the Lord ^(O)saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. ^31 (P)Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they ^(Q)believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.