1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD. They said, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has risen up in triumph; horse and rider he has hurled into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him; the God of my father, and I will lift him high.
3 The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is his name.
4 The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he has thrown into the sea; the best of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
5 The deep waters covered them; they sank to the bottom like a stone.
6 Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in strength; your right hand, O LORD, smashes the enemy.
7 In your great majesty you throw down those who rise against you; you let loose your burning anger, and it devours them like stubble.
8 By the breath of your nostrils the waters were heaped up; the streams stood upright like a mound; the depths turned solid in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, 'I will chase, I will catch up, I will divide the plunder; my appetite will have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand will wipe them out.'
10 You blew with your breath, and the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who among the gods is like you, O LORD? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, to be feared in praises, working wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand, and the earth swallowed them.
13 In your steadfast love you have led the people you redeemed; in your strength you have guided them to your holy dwelling place.
14 The peoples have heard, and they shake; pangs have seized those who live in Philistia.
15 Then the chiefs of Edom were terrified; trembling seized the leaders of Moab; all who live in Canaan have melted away.
16 Terror and dread fall on them; by the might of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass by, O LORD, until the people you have acquired pass by.
17 You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain that is your inheritance, the place, O LORD, that you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.
18 The LORD will reign forever and ever."
19 For when Pharaoh's horses with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them; but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea.
20 Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
21 Miriam sang back to them, "Sing to the LORD, for he has risen up in triumph; horse and rider he has hurled into the sea."
22 Then Moses had Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. For three days they traveled in the wilderness without finding water.
23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; that is why it was called Marah.
24 The people grumbled against Moses and said, "What are we to drink?"
25 He cried out to the LORD, and the LORD pointed out to him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water turned sweet. There he laid down for them a statute and a rule, and there he put them to the test.
26 He said, "If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in his eyes, and pay attention to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not bring on you any of the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you."
27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there beside the water.