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Exodus 15

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Exodus 15 Bible text

WEB: 1WEB

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said, “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

ASV: 1ASV

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto Jehovah, and spake, saying, I will sing unto Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

WEB: 2WEB

The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

ASV: 2ASV

Jehovah is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father’s God, and I will exalt him.

WEB: 3WEB

The LORD is a man of war. The LORD is his name.

ASV: 3ASV

Jehovah is a man of war: Jehovah is his name.

WEB: 4WEB

He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

ASV: 4ASV

Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea; And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

WEB: 5WEB

The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

ASV: 5ASV

The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.

WEB: 6WEB

Your right hand, LORD, is glorious in power. Your right hand, LORD, dashes the enemy in pieces.

ASV: 6ASV

Thy right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power, Thy right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth in pieces the enemy.

WEB: 7WEB

In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

ASV: 7ASV

And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.

WEB: 8WEB

With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

ASV: 8ASV

And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up, The floods stood upright as a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

WEB: 9WEB

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’

ASV: 9ASV

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

WEB: 10WEB

You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

ASV: 10ASV

Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

WEB: 11WEB

Who is like you, LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

ASV: 11ASV

Who is like unto thee, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?

WEB: 12WEB

You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

ASV: 12ASV

Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, The earth swallowed them.

WEB: 13WEB

“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

ASV: 13ASV

Thou in thy lovingkindness hast led the people that thou hast redeemed: Thou hast guided them in thy strength to thy holy habitation.

WEB: 14WEB

The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.

ASV: 14ASV

The peoples have heard, they tremble: Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

WEB: 15WEB

Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

ASV: 15ASV

Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.

WEB: 16WEB

Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, LORD, until the people you have purchased pass over.

ASV: 16ASV

Terror and dread falleth upon them; By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone; Till thy people pass over, O Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.

WEB: 17WEB

You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, LORD, which you have made for yourself to dwell in: the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.

ASV: 17ASV

Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, The place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

WEB: 18WEB

The LORD will reign forever and ever.”

ASV: 18ASV

Jehovah shall reign for ever and ever.

WEB: 19WEB

For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.

ASV: 19ASV

For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.

WEB: 20WEB

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

ASV: 20ASV

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

WEB: 21WEB

Miriam answered them, “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.”

ASV: 21ASV

And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously; The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

WEB: 22WEB

Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

ASV: 22ASV

And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

WEB: 23WEB

When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

ASV: 23ASV

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

WEB: 24WEB

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

ASV: 24ASV

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

WEB: 25WEB

Then he cried to the LORD. The LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.

ASV: 25ASV

And he cried unto Jehovah; and Jehovah showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them;

WEB: 26WEB

He said, “If you will diligently listen to the LORD your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you.”

ASV: 26ASV

and he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee.

WEB: 27WEB

They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.

ASV: 27ASV

And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees: and they encamped there by the waters.