Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

² Judah was his holiness, and Israel his dominion.

³ The sea saw it and fled; Jordan was driven back.

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs.

⁵ What came upon thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee? And thou O Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

⁶ Ye mountains, why didst ye skip like rams and ye little hills, like lambs?

⁷ At the presence of the Lord, the earth trembles, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸ who turned the rock into a reservoir of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

14 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

² Speak unto the sons of Israel that they turn and set up their camp before Pihahiroth between Migdol and the sea over against Baalzephon; before it shall ye set up camp by the sea.

³ For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.

⁴ And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart that he shall follow after them; and I will be glorified in Pharaoh and in all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD. And they did so.

⁵ And it was told the king of Egypt how the people fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his slaves was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

⁶ And he made ready his chariot and took his people with him;

⁷ and he took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt and the captains over them.

⁸ And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he pursued after the sons of Israel, but the sons of Israel had already left with great power.

⁹ The Egyptians, nevertheless, pursued after them with all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and all his army, and overtook them setting up camp by the sea beside Pihahiroth before Baalzephon.

¹⁰ ¶ And when Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they feared greatly, and the sons of Israel cried out unto the LORD.

¹¹ And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

¹² Is this not what we told thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.

¹³ And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still and see the saving health of the LORD, which he will bestow on you today; for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall never see them again for ever.

¹⁴ The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall be still.

¹⁵ ¶ Then the LORD said unto Moses, Why criest thou unto me? Speak unto the sons of Israel that they go forward:

¹⁶ And lift up thy rod and stretch out thy hand over the sea and divide it; and the sons of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

¹⁷ And behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians that they shall follow them: and I will be glorified in Pharaoh and in all his host, in his chariots, and in his horsemen.

¹⁸ And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have glorified myself in Pharaoh, in his chariots, and in his horsemen.

⁹ And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him

¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his afflictions and gave him grace and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

¹¹ Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers found no sustenance.

¹² But when Jacob heard that there was wheat in Egypt, he sent our fathers the first time.

¹³ And in the second Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s lineage was made known unto Pharaoh.

¹⁴ Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob unto him and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

¹⁵ So Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,

¹⁶ who were carried over into Shechem and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.