When Pharaoh stubbornly refused<n id="1" /> to release us, the <sc>Lordsc> killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals.<n id="2" /> That is why I am sacrificing<n id="3" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.&#8217;

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When Pharaoh released<n id="2" /> the people, God did not lead them<n id="3" /> by the way to the land<n id="4" /> of the Philistines,<n id="5" /> although<n id="6" /> that was nearby, for God said,<n id="7" /> &#8220;Lest<n id="8" /> the people change their minds<n id="9" /> and return to Egypt when they experience<n id="10" /> war.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">When it was reported<n id="1" /> to the king of Egypt that the people had fled,<n id="2" /> the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said,<n id="3" /> &#8220;What in the world have we done?<n id="4" /> For we have released the people of Israel<n id="5" /> from serving us!&#8221;

The Egyptians chased after them, and all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-Zephon.

<p class="poetry">For the horses of Pharaoh came with his chariots and his footmen into the sea,p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc> brought back the waters of the sea on them,p> <p class="poetry">but the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.&#8221;p>

Moses told his father-in-law all that the <sc>Lordsc> had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel&#8217;s sake, and all the hardship<n id="1" /> that had come on them<n id="2" /> along the way, and how<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> had delivered them.p>