Exo 15:1 Then Mosheh and the children of Yisra’ěl sang this song to יהוה, and spoke, saying, “I sing to יהוה, for He is highly exalted! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!
Exo 15:2 “Yah is my strength and song, and He has become my deliverance.a He is my Ěl, and I praise Him – Elohim of my father, and I exalt Him. Footnote: aSee Psa_118:14 and Isa_12:2.
Exo 15:3 “יהוה is a man of battle, יהוה is His Name.
Exo 15:4 “He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea, and his chosen officers are drowned in the Sea of Reeds.
Exo 15:5 “The depths covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone.
Exo 15:6 “Your right hand, O יהוה, has become great in power. Your right hand, O יהוה, has crushed the enemy.
Exo 15:7 “And in the greatness of Your excellence You pulled down those who rose up against You. You sent forth Your wrath, it consumed them like stubble.
Exo 15:8 “And with the wind of Your nostrils the waters were heaped up, the floods stood like a wall, the depths became stiff in the heart of the sea.
Exo 15:9 “The enemy said, ‘I pursue, I overtake, I divide the spoil, my being is satisfied on them. I draw out my sword, my hand destroys them.’
Exo 15:10 “You did blow with Your wind, the sea covered them, they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Exo 15:11 “Who is like You, O יהוה, among the mighty ones? Who is like You, great in set-apartness, awesome in praises, working wonders?
Exo 15:12 “You stretched out Your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Exo 15:13 “In Your loving-commitment You led the people whom You have redeemed, in Your strength You guided them to Your set-apart dwelling.
Exo 15:14 “Peoples heard, they trembled, anguish gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.
Exo 15:15 “Then the chiefs of Eḏom were troubled, the mighty men of Mo’aḇ, trembling grips them, all the inhabitants of Kena‛an melted.
Exo 15:16 “Fear and dread fell on them, by the greatness of Your arm they are as silent as a stone, until Your people pass over, O יהוה, until the people, whom You have bought, pass over.
Exo 15:17 “You bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, in the place, O יהוה, which You have made for Your own dwelling, the set-apart place, O יהוה, which Your hands have prepared.
Exo 15:18 “יהוה reigns forever and ever.”
Exo 15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and יהוה brought back the waters of the sea upon them. And the children of Yisra’ěl went on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
Exo 15:20 And Miryam the prophetess, the sister of Aharon, took the timbrel in her hand. And all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Exo 15:21 And Miryam answered them, “Sing to יהוה, for He is highly exalted! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!”
Bitter Water Made Sweet
Exo 15:22 And Mosheh brought Yisra’ěl from the Sea of Reeds, and they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
Exo 15:23 And they came to Marah, and they were unable to drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. So the name of it was called Marah.
Exo 15:24 And the people grumbled against Mosheh, saying, “What are we to drink?”
Exo 15:25 Then he cried out to יהוה, and יהוה showed him a tree. And when he threw it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a law and a right-ruling for them, and there He tried them.
Exo 15:26 And He said, “If you diligently obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim and do what is right in His eyes, and shall listen to His commands and shall guard all His laws, I shall bring on you none of the diseases I brought on the Mitsrites, for I am יהוה who heals you.”
Exo 15:27 And they came to Ělim, where there were twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees. And they camped there by the waters.
Bread from Heaven
Exo 16:1 And they set out from Ělim, and all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ěl came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Ělim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second new moon after their going out of the land of Mitsrayim.
Exo 16:2 And all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ěl grumbled against Mosheh and Aharon in the wilderness.
Exo 16:3 And the children of Yisra’ěl said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of יהוה in the land of Mitsrayim, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to satisfaction! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.”
Exo 16:4 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “See, I am raining bread from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, in order to try them, whether they walk in My Torah or not.
Exo 16:5 “And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”
Exo 16:6 And Mosheh and Aharon said to all the children of Yisra’ěl, “At evening you shall know that יהוה has brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim.
Exo 16:7 “And in the morning you shall see the esteem of יהוה, for He hears your grumblings against יהוה. And what are we, that you grumble against us?”
Exo 16:8 And Mosheh said, “In that יהוה gives you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfaction, for יהוה hears your grumblings which you make against Him. And what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against יהוה.”
Exo 16:9 And Mosheh said to Aharon, “Say to all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ěl, ‘Come near before יהוה, for He has heard your grumblings.’ ”
Exo 16:10 And it came to be, as Aharon spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ěl, that they looked toward the wilderness and see, the esteem of יהוה appeared in the cloud.
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