Exodus 14

vayedabber Adonai el-mosheh lemor

GOD said to Moses:

dabber el-bene yisra'el veyashuvu veyakhanu lifne pi hakhirot ben migdol uven hayyam lifne ba'al tsefon nikhkho takhanu al-hayyam

Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea.

ve'amar paroh livne yisra'el nevukhim hem ba'arets sagar alehem hammidbar

Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, “They are astray in the land; the wilderness has closed in on them.”

vekhizzaqti et-lev-paroh veradaf akharehem ve'ikkavedah befaroh uvekhol-khelo veyade'u mitsrayim ki-ani Adonai vayya'asu-khen

Then I will stiffen Pharaoh’s heart and he will pursue them, that I may gain glory through Pharaoh and all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am GOD. And they did so.

vayyuggad lemelekh mitsrayim ki varakh ha'am vayyehafekh levav paroh va'avadayw el-ha'am vayyomeru mah-zzot asinu ki-shillakhnu et-yisra'el me'ovdenu

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his courtiers had a change of heart about the people and said, “What is this we have done, releasing Israel from our service?”

vayyesor et-rikhbo ve'et-ammo laqakh immo

He ordered his chariot and took his force with him;

vayyiqqakh shesh-me'ot rekhev bakhur vekhol rekhev mitsrayim veshalishim al-kullo

he took six hundred of his picked chariots, and the rest of the chariots of Egypt, with officers in all of them.

vayekhazzeq Adonai et-lev paroh melekh mitsrayim vayyirdof akhare bene yisra'el uvene yisra'el yotse'im beyad ramah

GOD stiffened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he gave chase to the Israelites. As the Israelites were departing defiantly,

vayyirdefu mitsrayim akharehem vayyassigu otam khonim al-hayyam kol-sus rekhev paroh ufarashayw vekhelo al-pi hakhirot lifne ba'al tsefon

the Egyptians gave chase to them, and all the chariot horses of Pharaoh, his riders, and his warriors overtook them encamped by the sea, near Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

ufaroh hiqriv vayyisu vene-yisra'el et-enehem vehinneh mitsrayim nosea akharehem vayyire'u me'od vayyitsaqu vene-yisra'el el-Adonai

As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites caught sight of the Egyptians advancing upon them. Greatly frightened, the Israelites cried out to GOD.

vayyomeru el-mosheh hamibbeli en-qevarim bemitsrayim leqakhtanu lamut bammidbar mah-zzot asita lanu lehotsi'anu mimmitsrayim

And they said to Moses, “Was it for want of graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, taking us out of Egypt?

halo-zeh haddavar asher dibbarnu elekha vemitsrayim lemor khadal mimmennu vena'avdah et-mitsrayim ki tov lanu avod et-mitsrayim mimmutenu bammidbar

Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us be, and we will serve the Egyptians, for it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness’?”

vayyomer mosheh el-ha'am al-tira'u hityatsevu ure'u et-yeshu'at Adonai asher-ya'aseh lakhem hayyom ki asher re'item et-mitsrayim hayyom lo tosifu lirotam od ad-olam

But Moses said to the people, “Have no fear! Stand by, and witness the deliverance that GOD will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again.

Adonai yillakhem lakhem ve'attem takharishun

GOD will battle for you; you hold your peace!”

vayyomer Adonai el-mosheh mah-ttitsaq elay dabber el-bene-yisra'el veyissa'u

Then GOD said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.

ve'attah harem et-mattekha uneteh et-yadekha al-hayyam uveqa'ehu veyavo'u vene-yisra'el betokh hayyam bayyabbashah

And you lift up your rod and hold out your arm over the sea and split it, so that the Israelites may march into the sea on dry ground.

va'ani hinni mekhazzeq et-lev mitsrayim veyavo'u akharehem ve'ikkavedah befaroh uvekhol-khelo berikhbo uvefarashayw

And I will stiffen the hearts of the Egyptians so that they go in after them; and I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his warriors, his chariots, and his riders.

veyade'u mitsrayim ki-ani Adonai behikkavedi befaroh berikhbo uvefarashayw

Let the Egyptians know that I am GOD, when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his riders.”

vayyissa malakh ha'elohim haholekh lifne makhaneh yisra'el vayyelekh me'akharehem vayyissa ammud he'anan mippenehem vayya'amod me'akharehem

The angel of God, who had been going ahead of the Israelite army, now moved and followed behind them; and the pillar of cloud shifted from in front of them and took up a place behind them,

vayyavo ben makhaneh mitsrayim uven makhaneh yisra'el vayehi he'anan vehakhoshekh vayya'er et-hallayelah velo-qarav zeh el-zeh kol-hallayelah

and it came between the army of the Egyptians and the army of Israel. Thus there was the cloud with the darkness, and it cast a spell upon the night, so that the one could not come near the other all through the night.

vayyet mosheh et-yado al-hayyam vayyolekh Adonai et-hayyam beruakh qadim azzah kol-hallaylah vayyasem et-hayyam lekharavah vayyibbaqe'u hammayim

Then Moses held out his arm over the sea and GOD drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night, and turned the sea into dry ground. The waters were split,

vayyavo'u vene-yisra'el betokh hayyam bayyabbashah vehammayim lahem khomah miminam umissemolam

and the Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

vayyirdefu mitsrayim vayyavo'u akharehem kol sus paroh rikhbo ufarashayw el-tokh hayyam

The Egyptians came in pursuit after them into the sea, all of Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and riders.

vayehi be'ashmoret habboqer vayyashqef Adonai el-makhaneh mitsrayim be'ammud esh ve'anan vayyahom et makhaneh mitsrayim

At the morning watch, GOD looked down upon the Egyptian army from a pillar of fire and cloud, and threw the Egyptian army into panic.

vayyasar et ofan markevotayw vayenahagehu bikhvedut vayyomer mitsrayim anusah mippene yisra'el ki Adonai nilkham lahem bemitsrayim

[God] locked the wheels of their chariots so that they moved forward with difficulty. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the Israelites, for GOD is fighting for them against Egypt.”

vayyomer Adonai el-mosheh neteh et-yadekha al-hayyam veyashuvu hammayim al-mitsrayim al-rikhbo ve'al-parashayw

Then GOD said to Moses, “Hold out your arm over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians and upon their chariots and upon their riders.”

vayyet mosheh et-yado al-hayyam vayyashov hayyam lifnot boqer le'etano umitsrayim nasim liqrato vayena'er Adonai et-mitsrayim betokh hayyam

Moses held out his arm over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state, and the Egyptians fled at its approach. But GOD hurled the Egyptians into the sea.

vayyashuvu hammayim vayekhassu et-harekhev ve'et-happarashim lekhol khel paroh habba'im akharehem bayyam lo-nishar bahem ad-ekhad

The waters turned back and covered the chariots and the riders—Pharaoh’s entire army that followed them into the sea; not one of them remained.

uvene yisra'el halekhu vayyabbashah betokh hayyam vehammayim lahem khomah miminam umissemolam

But the Israelites had marched through the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

vayyosha Adonai bayyom hahu et-yisra'el miyyad mitsrayim vayyar yisra'el et-mitsrayim met al-sefat hayyam

Thus GOD delivered Israel that day from the Egyptians. Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea.

vayyar yisra'el et-hayyad haggedolah asher asah Adonai bemitsrayim vayyire'u ha'am et-Adonai vayya'aminu ba-Adonai uvemosheh avdo

And when Israel saw the wondrous power that GOD had wielded against the Egyptians, the people feared GOD; they had faith in GOD and in Moses—God’s servant.