It was a Reed Sea rather than the Red Sea. The original Hebrew text instead states that Moses parted the waters of Yam S ū ph, which is Hebrew for ‘sea of reeds’. Except that this isn’t what the Bible says. The Israelites are in awe of God’s power and thankful to him for helping them to escape Egypt for good.Įveryone knows the story of Moses parting the Red Sea so that he and the Israelites can escape the Egyptians. To finish the job, Moses, under God’s command, undoes the dividing of the waters so that the path he had created through the sea disappears, the waters come over the Egyptians’ chariots, and they are all drowned. So they retreat.ġ4:26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.ġ4:27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared and the Egyptians fled against it and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.ġ4:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them there remained not so much as one of them. The Egyptians give chase in their chariots, but soon come a-cropper, realising that God has lent the Israelites his assistance.
God tells Moses to raise his rod – which, earlier in Exodus, God had transformed into a snake, investing it with divine powers – and divide the waters of the sea, so the Israelites can walk across it on dry ground, even though they’re technically in the middle of the sea.ġ4:21 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.ġ4:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.ġ4:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
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