Exodus · Bible in Basic English
Exodus 15 Bible in Basic English
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1 Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea.
1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
2 The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory.
2 Yah 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.
3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.
3 Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.
4 Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea.
4 He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
5 They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.
5 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
6 Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken.
6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
7 When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.
7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
8 By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.
8 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.
9 Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.
9 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.’
10 You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.
10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?
11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.
12 You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
13 In your mercy you went before the people whom you have made yours; guiding them in your strength to your holy place.
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.
14 Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain.
14 The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.
15 The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water.
15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
16 Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours.
16 Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people you have purchased pass over.
17 You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.
17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in: the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
18 The Lord is King for ever and ever.
18 Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”
19 For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his horsemen, went into the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of the sea back over them; but the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land.
19 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.
20 And Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron, took an instrument of music in her hand; and all the women went after her with music and dances.
20 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.
21 And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory; the horse and the horseman he has sent into the sea.
21 Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.”
22 Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water.
22 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.
23 And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah.
23 When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.
24 And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?
24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
25 And in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a tree, and when he put it into the water, the water was made sweet. There he gave them a law and an order, testing them;
25 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.
26 And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.
26 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.”
27 And they came to Elim where there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees: and they put up their tents there by the waters.
27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Aaron
Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10
Miriam
The sister who watched over baby Moses and later led Israel in song.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2:1–8; 15:20–21; Numbers 12
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Revelation 15:3; Exodus 15:21; Psalm 106:12; Isaiah 12:1–6; Isaiah 51:10–11
- 2 Isaiah 12:2; Psalm 118:14; Psalm 18:46; Psalm 59:17; Isaiah 25:1
- 3 Psalm 24:8; Exodus 14:14; Revelation 19:11–21; Isaiah 42:8; Exodus 6:6–8
- 4 Exodus 14:13–28; Exodus 14:6–7
- 5 Nehemiah 9:11; Exodus 14:28; Exodus 15:10; Jeremiah 51:63–64; Ezekiel 27:34
- 6 Psalm 118:15–16; Isaiah 51:9; Psalm 2:9; 1 Chronicles 29:11–12; Matthew 6:13
- 7 Isaiah 5:24; Malachi 4:1; Isaiah 47:14; Psalm 83:13; Isaiah 5:16
- 8 Job 4:9; Psalm 78:13; Exodus 14:21–22; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Isaiah 11:4
- 9 Judges 5:30; Exodus 14:5; Isaiah 53:12; Luke 11:22; Habakkuk 3:14
- 10 Exodus 14:27–28; Exodus 14:21; Isaiah 11:15; Exodus 15:5; Deuteronomy 11:4
- 11 1 Kings 8:23; Psalm 89:5–8; 1 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 7:22; Revelation 4:8
- 12 Exodus 15:6
- 13 Psalm 77:20; 1 Peter 1:5; Psalm 77:14–15; Psalm 78:52–54; Psalm 106:9
- 14 Deuteronomy 2:25; Joshua 2:9–10; Psalm 48:6; Isaiah 14:31; Joshua 9:24
- 15 Joshua 5:1; Joshua 2:9; Joshua 2:11; Genesis 36:40; Deuteronomy 2:4
- 16 Psalm 74:2; Deuteronomy 2:25; Joshua 2:9; 1 Samuel 25:37; Jeremiah 31:11
- 17 Psalm 80:8; Psalm 44:2; Psalm 78:54–55; Jeremiah 32:41; Psalm 78:68–69
- 18 Psalm 29:10; Psalm 10:16; Psalm 146:10; Isaiah 57:15; Daniel 2:44
- 19 Exodus 14:28–29; Hebrews 11:29; Exodus 14:22–23; Proverbs 21:31
- 20 Psalm 150:4; 1 Samuel 18:6; Psalm 68:25; Psalm 149:3; Judges 11:34
- 21 Exodus 15:1; Revelation 15:3; Revelation 7:10–12; Revelation 5:9; Revelation 19:1–6
- 22 Genesis 16:7; 1 Samuel 15:7; Exodus 3:18; Genesis 25:18
- 23 Ruth 1:20; Numbers 33:8
- 24 Exodus 16:2; Numbers 20:2–5; Exodus 14:11; Psalm 78:19–20; Numbers 14:1–4
- 25 Deuteronomy 8:2; Psalm 66:10; Judges 3:1; Judges 3:4; Judges 2:22
- 26 Psalm 103:3; Deuteronomy 7:15; Exodus 23:25; Psalm 41:3–4; Psalm 147:3
- 27 Revelation 22:2; Revelation 7:17; Numbers 33:9; Isaiah 12:3; Ezekiel 47:12
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Not, however, the wood which we read Moses cast into the bitter waters to make them sweet, nor the stone which Jacob used as a pillow, nor the ram which Abraham offered up instead of his son; for these, though they are things, are also signs of other things.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
… expression as when we say, "This servitude he served," "such a life he lived." He is here alluding to that well-known hymn, commencing, "I will sing unto the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and the rider hath He thrown into the sea."
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)