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Exodus Chapter 15

¹Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to ForeverOne, and said, "I will sing to ForeverOne, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

²EverOne 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.

³ForeverOne is a man of war. ForeverOne is his name.

⁴He has thrown Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

⁵The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

⁶Your right hand, ForeverOne, is glorious in power. Your right hand, ForeverOne, dashes the enemy in pieces.

⁷In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

⁸With 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.

⁹The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.' ¹⁰You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

¹¹Who is like you, ForeverOne, among the Gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

¹²You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

¹³"You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

¹⁴The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

¹⁵Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.

¹⁶Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone - until your people pass over, ForeverOne, until the people pass over who you have purchased.

¹⁷You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, ForeverOne, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, LordOfMine, which your hands have established.

¹⁸ForeverOne shall reign forever and ever." ¹⁹For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and ForeverOne brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.

²⁰Miriam 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.

²¹Miriam answered them, "Sing to ForeverOne, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea." ²²Moses 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.

²³When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

²⁴The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" ²⁵Then he cried to ForeverOne. ForeverOne 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; ²⁶and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of ForeverOne your God, and will do what 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 ForeverOne who heals you." ²⁷They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.