He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
Parallel translations
- KJV He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
- BSB He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
- NKJV He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; And He made the waters stand up like a heap.
- NASB He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap.
- NLT For he divided the sea and led them through, making the water stand up like walls!
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- Exod 14:21Moses 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.
- Exod 15:8With 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.
- Ps 66:6He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.
- Josh 3:16the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.
- Ps 106:9–10He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
- Ps 136:13–15To him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever;
- 1 Cor 10:2–3and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
- Ps 38:7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
- Isa 63:13Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble?
- Hab 3:15You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.
- Exod 14:1–15Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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