Exodus 15 · Kingdoms of Scripture

1Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to Yahweh. They said, “I will sing to Yahweh, because he has risen, he has risen. The horse and its rider he hurled into the sea.

Notes (1)

Translation
Ga’oh ga’ah is “he is high, he has risen,” said twice. Ramah is he threw, he hurled. The doubling is kept.

2Yah is my strength and my song. He has become my rescue. This is my God, and I will adorn him, my father’s God, and I will lift him high.

Notes (1)

Translation
Yah is the short name, two consonants, not the full four. It is not expanded to Yahweh. Zimrat can be song or might. “My song” is printed. “My might” is the live alternative. Anvehu is uncertain. “I will adorn him” is printed. “I will make a dwelling for him” is the live alternative.

3Yahweh is a man of battle. Yahweh is his name.

4Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he shot into the sea. His chosen officers sank in the Sea of Reeds.

5The deeps covered them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, shatters the enemy.

7In the greatness of your height you throw down those who rise against you. You send out your fury. It eats them like straw.

8By the wind of your nostrils the waters piled up. The streams stood like a heap. The deeps thickened in the heart of the sea.

Notes (1)

Translation
Ned is a heap, a piled wall of water. Qaphe’u is they grew thick, they congealed.

9The enemy said, ‘I will chase, I will catch, I will divide the spoil. My appetite will be filled with them. I will draw my sword. My hand will take possession of them.’

10You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

11Who is like you among the gods, Yahweh? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, feared in praises, doing a wonder?

12You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

13In your loyalty you led the people you redeemed. In your strength you guided them to your holy pasture.

Notes (1)

Translation
Chesed is printed “loyalty.” That is the project-wide word. See the glossary. Neveh qodshekha is the holy pasture, the holy abode.

14Peoples heard. They trembled. Writhing seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

15Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling seized the rams of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan melted.

Notes (1)

Translation
Eilei moav are the rams of Moab, its leading men. “Rams” is printed, not replaced by “leaders” alone.

16Terror and dread fall on them. By the greatness of your arm they are silent as a stone, until your people pass, Yahweh, until the people you acquired pass.

17You bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, the place you made for your dwelling, Yahweh, the sanctuary, Lord, your hands established.

Notes (1)

Translation
Adonai in this line is “Lord,” not the four consonants. Yahweh and Lord both stand in the verse, and both are printed.

18Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”

19When Pharaoh’s horse went in, with his chariots and his riders, into the sea, Yahweh brought the waters of the sea back over them, and the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea.

20Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took the drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with drums and with dances.

Notes (1)

Translation
Tof is a hand drum, not a metal cymbal. Nevi’ah is a prophet, the same word as Aaron’s title in chapter 7, in the feminine.

21Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, because he has risen, he has risen. The horse and its rider he hurled into the sea.”

22Moses made Israel journey on from the Sea of Reeds, and they went out to the wilderness of Shur. They walked three days in the wilderness and found no water.

23They came to Marah, and they could not drink water from Marah because it was bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

Notes (1)

Translation
Marah means bitter. The name and the taste are the same word.

24The people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

25He cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a tree. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he set him a statute and a judgment, and there he tested him.

26He said, “If you listen, listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and do what is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commands, and keep all his statutes, I will put on you none of the sickness I put on Egypt, because I am Yahweh, your healer.”

27They came to Elim. There were twelve springs of water there, and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

1Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to Yahweh. They said, “I will sing to Yahweh, because he has risen, he has risen. The horse and its rider he hurled into the sea.

Notes (1)

Translation
Ga’oh ga’ah is “he is high, he has risen,” said twice. Ramah is he threw, he hurled. The doubling is kept.

2Yah is my strength and my song. He has become my rescue. This is my God, and I will adorn him, my father’s God, and I will lift him high.

Notes (1)

Translation
Yah is the short name, two consonants, not the full four. It is not expanded to Yahweh. Zimrat can be song or might. “My song” is printed. “My might” is the live alternative. Anvehu is uncertain. “I will adorn him” is printed. “I will make a dwelling for him” is the live alternative.

3Yahweh is a man of battle. Yahweh is his name.

4Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he shot into the sea. His chosen officers sank in the Sea of Reeds.

5The deeps covered them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, shatters the enemy.

7In the greatness of your height you throw down those who rise against you. You send out your fury. It eats them like straw.

8By the wind of your nostrils the waters piled up. The streams stood like a heap. The deeps thickened in the heart of the sea.

Notes (1)

Translation
Ned is a heap, a piled wall of water. Qaphe’u is they grew thick, they congealed.

9The enemy said, ‘I will chase, I will catch, I will divide the spoil. My appetite will be filled with them. I will draw my sword. My hand will take possession of them.’

10You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

11Who is like you among the gods, Yahweh? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, feared in praises, doing a wonder?

12You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

13In your loyalty you led the people you redeemed. In your strength you guided them to your holy pasture.

Notes (1)

Translation
Chesed is printed “loyalty.” That is the project-wide word. See the glossary. Neveh qodshekha is the holy pasture, the holy abode.

14Peoples heard. They trembled. Writhing seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

15Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling seized the rams of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan melted.

Notes (1)

Translation
Eilei moav are the rams of Moab, its leading men. “Rams” is printed, not replaced by “leaders” alone.

16Terror and dread fall on them. By the greatness of your arm they are silent as a stone, until your people pass, Yahweh, until the people you acquired pass.

17You bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, the place you made for your dwelling, Yahweh, the sanctuary, Lord, your hands established.

Notes (1)

Translation
Adonai in this line is “Lord,” not the four consonants. Yahweh and Lord both stand in the verse, and both are printed.

18Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”

20Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took the drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with drums and with dances.

Notes (1)

Translation
Tof is a hand drum, not a metal cymbal. Nevi’ah is a prophet, the same word as Aaron’s title in chapter 7, in the feminine.

21Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, because he has risen, he has risen. The horse and its rider he hurled into the sea.”

22Moses made Israel journey on from the Sea of Reeds, and they went out to the wilderness of Shur. They walked three days in the wilderness and found no water.

23They came to Marah, and they could not drink water from Marah because it was bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

Notes (1)

Translation
Marah means bitter. The name and the taste are the same word.

24The people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

25He cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a tree. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he set him a statute and a judgment, and there he tested him.

27They came to Elim. There were twelve springs of water there, and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.