God tells Moses: why are you crying out to me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. Lift your staff and stretch your hand over the sea and divide it.
The angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moves and goes behind them. The pillar of cloud moves from before them to behind them. It stands between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel — darkness to one side, light to the other. Neither comes near the other all night.
Moses stretches his hand over the sea. God drives the sea back with a strong east wind all night. The sea becomes dry ground. The waters divide.
Israel goes into the midst of the sea on dry ground. The waters are a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. They walk through between vertical walls of water, on ground that should be sea floor.
The Egyptian army enters after them — horses, chariots, and horsemen — into the midst of the sea. But in the morning watch, God looks down through the pillar of fire and cloud on the Egyptian army, and throws them into panic. He locks the wheels of their chariots so they drag. The Egyptians say: flee from Israel — God is fighting for them against us.
The sea returns. The waters cover the chariots and the horsemen and the entire army of Pharaoh. Not one of them remains.
