Exodus 14 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Locutus est autem Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Loquere filiis Israël: Reversi castrametentur e regione Phihahiroth, quæ est inter Magdalum et mare contra Beelsephon: in conspectu ejus castra ponetis super mare.
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
3 Dicturusque est Pharao super filiis Israël: Coarctati sunt in terra; conclusit eos desertum.
3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’
4 Et indurabo cor ejus, ac persequetur vos: et glorificabor in Pharaone, et in omni exercitu ejus; scientque Ægyptii quia ego sum Dominus. Feceruntque ita.
4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
5 Et nuntiatum est regi Ægyptiorum quod fugisset populus: immutatumque est cor Pharaonis et servorum ejus super populo, et dixerunt: Quid voluimus facere ut dimitteremus Israël, ne serviret nobis?
5 The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
6 Junxit ergo currum, et omnem populum suum assumpsit secum.
6 He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;
7 Tulitque sexcentos currus electos, et quidquid in Ægypto curruum fuit: et duces totius exercitus.
7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them.
8 Induravitque Dominus cor Pharaonis regis Ægypti, et persecutus est filios Israël: at illi egressi sunt in manu excelsa.
8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.
9 Cumque persequerentur Ægyptii vestigia præcedentium, repererunt eos in castris super mare: omnis equitatus et currus Pharaonis, et universus exercitus, erant in Phihahiroth contra Beelsephon.
9 The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
10 Cumque appropinquasset Pharao, levantes filii Israël oculos, viderunt Ægyptios post se, et timuerunt valde: clamaveruntque ad Dominum,
10 When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
11 et dixerunt ad Moysen: Forsitan non erant sepulchra in Ægypto, ideo tulisti nos ut moreremur in solitudine: quid hoc facere voluisti, ut educeres nos ex Ægypto?
11 They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
12 nonne iste est sermo, quem loquebamur ad te in Ægypto, dicentes: Recede a nobis, ut serviamus Ægyptiis? multo enim melius erat servire eis, quam mori in solitudine.
12 Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
13 Et ait Moyses ad populum: Nolite timere: state, et videte magnalia Domini quæ facturus est hodie: Ægyptios enim, quos nunc videtis, nequaquam ultra videbitis usque in sempiternum.
13 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.
14 Dominus pugnabit pro vobis, et vos tacebitis.
14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
15 Dixitque Dominus ad Moysen: Quid clamas ad me? loquere filiis Israël ut proficiscantur.
15 Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.
16 Tu autem eleva virgam tuam, et extende manum tuam super mare, et divide illud: ut gradiantur filii Israël in medio mari per siccum.
16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.
17 Ego autem indurabo cor Ægyptiorum ut persequantur vos: et glorificabor in Pharaone, et in omni exercitu ejus, et in curribus et in equitibus illius.
17 Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
18 Et scient Ægyptii quia ego sum Dominus cum glorificatus fuero in Pharaone, et in curribus atque in equitibus ejus.
18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”
19 Tollensque se angelus Dei, qui præcedebat castra Israël, abiit post eos: et cum eo pariter columna nubis, priora dimittens, post tergum
19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
20 stetit, inter castra Ægyptiorum et castra Israël: et erat nubes tenebrosa, et illuminans noctem, ita ut ad se invicem toto noctis tempore accedere non valerent.
20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.
21 Cumque extendisset Moyses manum super mare, abstulit illud Dominus flante vento vehementi et urente tota nocte, et vertit in siccum: divisaque est aqua.
21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 Et ingressi sunt filii Israël per medium sicci maris: erat enim aqua quasi murus a dextra eorum et læva.
22 The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
23 Persequentesque Ægyptii ingressi sunt post eos, et omnis equitatus Pharaonis, currus ejus et equites per medium maris.
23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
24 Jamque advenerat vigilia matutina, et ecce respiciens Dominus super castra Ægyptiorum per columnam ignis et nubis, interfecit exercitum eorum,
24 In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
25 et subvertit rotas curruum, ferebanturque in profundum. Dixerunt ergo Ægyptii: Fugiamus Israëlem: Dominus enim pugnat pro eis contra nos.
25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”
26 Et ait Dominus ad Moysen: Extende manum tuam super mare, ut revertantur aquæ ad Ægyptios super currus et equites eorum.
26 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”
27 Cumque extendisset Moyses manum contra mare, reversum est primo diluculo ad priorem locum: fugientibusque Ægyptiis occurrerunt aquæ, et involvit eos Dominus in mediis fluctibus.
27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
28 Reversæque sunt aquæ, et operuerunt currus et equites cuncti exercitus Pharaonis, qui sequentes ingressi fuerant mare: nec unus quidem superfuit ex eis.
28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
29 Filii autem Israël perrexerunt per medium sicci maris, et aquæ eis erant quasi pro muro a dextris et a sinistris:
29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
30 liberavitque Dominus in die illa Israël de manu Ægyptiorum.
30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
31 Et viderunt Ægyptios mortuos super littus maris, et manum magnam quam exercuerat Dominus contra eos: timuitque populus Dominum, et crediderunt Domino, et Moysi servo ejus.
31 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.
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Aaron
Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10
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 (29)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Numbers 33:7–8; Jeremiah 44:1; Exodus 13:17–18; Jeremiah 46:14; Exodus 14:9
- 3 Acts 4:28; Ezekiel 38:17; Psalm 139:4; 1 Samuel 23:7; Psalm 3:2
- 4 Romans 9:22–23; Exodus 7:5; Romans 9:17; Exodus 7:3; Exodus 9:16
- 5 Psalm 105:25; Luke 11:24–26; Exodus 12:33; Jeremiah 34:10–17; 2 Peter 2:20–22
- 7 Psalm 20:7; Exodus 15:4; Judges 4:15; Judges 4:3; Psalm 68:17
- 8 Numbers 33:3; Acts 13:17; Deuteronomy 26:8; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 14:4
- 9 Exodus 15:9; Joshua 24:6; Exodus 14:2
- 10 Psalm 107:6; Psalm 34:17; Nehemiah 9:9; Joshua 24:7; Matthew 8:25–26
- 11 Psalm 106:7–8; Numbers 14:1–4; Exodus 17:2–3; Exodus 15:23–24; Exodus 16:2–3
- 12 Jonah 4:3; Jonah 4:8; Exodus 6:9; Exodus 5:21; Exodus 3:9
- 13 2 Chronicles 20:17; 2 Chronicles 20:15; Exodus 14:30; Isaiah 41:10–14; 2 Kings 6:16
- 14 Deuteronomy 3:22; Deuteronomy 20:4; 2 Chronicles 20:17; Deuteronomy 1:30; Joshua 23:3
- 15 Joshua 7:10; Ezra 10:4–5; Exodus 17:4; Nehemiah 9:9
- 16 Exodus 7:19; Exodus 4:17; Exodus 4:20; Exodus 4:2; Exodus 7:9
- 17 Exodus 14:8; Exodus 14:4; Ezekiel 34:20; Deuteronomy 32:39; Ezekiel 34:11
- 18 Exodus 7:5; Exodus 7:17; Exodus 14:4
- 19 Isaiah 63:9; Exodus 32:34; Exodus 23:20–21; Numbers 20:16; Exodus 13:21–22
- 20 Isaiah 8:14; 2 Corinthians 2:15–16; Proverbs 4:18–19; Psalm 18:11
- 21 Isaiah 63:12; Psalm 66:6; Exodus 15:8; Nehemiah 9:11; Psalm 78:13
- 22 Hebrews 11:29; Exodus 15:19; Psalm 66:6; Psalm 78:13; Exodus 14:29
- 23 Exodus 14:17; Exodus 15:19; 1 Kings 22:20; Exodus 15:9; Ecclesiastes 9:3
- 24 Exodus 13:21; Exodus 14:25; Psalm 77:16–19; Job 34:29; Job 23:15–16
- 25 Exodus 14:14; Jeremiah 51:21; Job 20:24; 1 Samuel 4:7–8; Deuteronomy 3:22
- 26 Exodus 14:16; Exodus 8:5; Exodus 7:19; Judges 1:6–7; Revelation 16:6
- 27 Joshua 4:18; Psalm 78:53; Deuteronomy 11:4; Hebrews 11:29; Exodus 15:1–21
- 28 Psalm 78:53; Psalm 106:9–11; Habakkuk 3:8–10; Habakkuk 3:13; Psalm 136:15
- 29 Exodus 14:22; Isaiah 51:13; Joshua 3:16; Isaiah 63:12–13; Job 38:8–11
- 30 Psalm 106:10; Psalm 106:8; Psalm 58:10; Jude 5; Psalm 92:9–11
- 31 John 2:11; John 11:45; John 8:30–32; John 2:23–25; Psalm 106:12–13
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
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