Exodus 14:21
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
KJV
Cumque extendisset Moyses manum super mare, abstulit illud Dominus flante vento vehementi et urente tota nocte, et vertit in siccum : divisaque est aqua.
Vulgate
ἐξέτεινεν δὲ Μωυσῆς τὴν χεῖρα ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν· καὶ ὑπήγαγεν Κύριος τὴν θάλασσαν ἐν ἀνέμῳ νότῳ βιαίῳ ὅλην τὴν νύκτα, καὶ ἐποίησεν τὴν θάλασσαν ξηράν, καὶ ἐσχίσθη τὸ ὕδωρ.
LXX
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
ASV
וַ/יֵּ֨ט מֹשֶׁ֣ה אֶת יָד/וֹ֮ עַל הַ/יָּם֒ וַ/יּ֣וֹלֶךְ יְהוָ֣ה אֶת הַ֠/יָּם בְּ/ר֨וּחַ קָדִ֤ים עַזָּה֙ כָּל הַ/לַּ֔יְלָה וַ/יָּ֥שֶׂם אֶת הַ/יָּ֖ם לֶ/חָרָבָ֑ה וַ/יִּבָּקְע֖וּ הַ/מָּֽיִם
Hebrew
Open in reader with connections →
In this verse
In the original Hebrew
17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Typology
Miracle
Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Christ provides for the good of his disciples not only when He is present in the body, but also when far away; for having abundance of means and of skill, He effects one and the same end by contrary actions. Observe, for instance, what He has done here. He leaves His disciples, and goes up into a mountain; and they, when even had come, went down unto the sea. They waited for…
The division of prophecy into its species Is the more excellent prophecy that which is without imaginative vision? The various degrees of prophecy Was Moses the greatest of the prophets? Can a comprehensor be a prophet? Did prophecy advance in perfection as time went on? Article 1. Whether prophecy is fittingly divided into the prophecy of divine predestination, of foreknowledg…
Covers Jacob and Esau, Joseph's rise in Egypt, the famine, Jacob's family settling in Goshen, the enslavement of Israel, the birth and early life of Moses, the ten plagues, and the Exodus from Egypt including the crossing of the Red Sea.
The exodus from Egypt is both a historical event and a symbol of the soul's liberation from bondage to the passions. The crossing of the Red Sea represents the decisive break with the life of slavery. Philo marvels at how God employed the very elements of nature — wind, water, and earth — as instruments of salvation for Israel and judgment upon Egypt.
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 2:8 — And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
- Acts 7:36 — He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
- Exod 7:19 — And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools
- Exod 14:16 — But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
- Exod 15:8 — And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Exod 15:8 — And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Exod 15:10 — Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
- Gen 8:1 — And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
- Hab 3:8 — Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
- Isa 11:15 — And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over drysho
- Isa 23:11 — He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
- Isa 43:16 — Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
- Isa 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the
- Isa 51:10 — Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
- Isa 51:10 — Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
- Isa 51:15 — But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
- Isa 63:12 — That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
- Isa 63:12 — That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
- Job 26:12 — He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
- Job 26:12 — He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
- Jonah 1:4 — But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
- Josh 2:10 — For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and O
- Josh 3:13 — And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the LORD of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall
- Josh 4:23 — For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
- Josh 4:23 — For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
- Neh 9:11 — And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
- Neh 9:11 — And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
- Ps 66:6 — He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
- Ps 66:6 — He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
- Ps 74:13 — Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
- Ps 74:13 — Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
- Ps 77:16 — The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
- Ps 78:13 — He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
- Ps 78:13 — He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
- Ps 106:7 — Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
- Ps 106:9 — He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
- Ps 114:3 — The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
- Ps 114:3 — The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
- Ps 136:13 — To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
- Zech 10:11 — And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of