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Exodus 15

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Exodus 15 Bible text

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Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,

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Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto Jehovah, and spake, saying,

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Yah is my strength and song.

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Jehovah is my strength and song,

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Yahweh is a man of war.

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Jehovah is a man of war:

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He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea.

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Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea;

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The deeps cover them.

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The deeps cover them:

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Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power.

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Thy right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power,

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In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.

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And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee:

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With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up.

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And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up,

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The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder.

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The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;

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You blew with your wind.

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Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them:

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Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?

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Who is like unto thee, O Jehovah, among the gods?

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You stretched out your right hand.

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Thou stretchedst out thy right hand,

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“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed.

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Thou in thy lovingkindness hast led the people that thou hast redeemed:

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The peoples have heard.

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The peoples have heard, they tremble:

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Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.

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Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed;

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Terror and dread falls on them.

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Terror and dread falleth upon them;

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You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,

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Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance,

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Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”

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Jehovah shall reign for ever and ever.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Miriam answered them,

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And Miriam answered them,

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh 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.

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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;

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He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh 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 Yahweh who heals you.”

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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.

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

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