Moses and the Parting of the Red Sea in Legos

 And when Pharaoh had sent out the people, the Lord led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines which is near: thinking perhaps they would repent if they should see wars arise against them, and would return into Egypt.

But He led them about by the way of the desert…and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

And Moses took Joseph’s bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying, “God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.”

And marching from Socoth they encamped in Etham in the utmost coasts of the wilderness.

And the Lord went before them to show the way by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire: that He might be the guide of their journey at both times.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel: Let them turn and encamp over against Phihahiroth: you shall encamp before it upon the sea.”

“And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are straitened in the land, the desert has shut them in.’  And I shall harden his heart, and he will pursue you: and I shall be glorified in Pharaoh, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.”

And it was told the king of the Egyptians that the people [had] fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed with regard to the people, and they said, “What meant we to do, that we let Israel go from serving us?”

So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him.  And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots that were in Egypt: and the captains of the whole army.

 

And he pursued the children of Israel: but they were gone forth in a mighty hand.

And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel, lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians behind them: and they feared exceedingly, and cried to the Lord.

And they said to Moses, “Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, therefore you have brought us to die in the wilderness: why would you do this, to lead us out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Depart from us that we may serve the Egyptians?’ for it was much better to serve them, than to die in the wilderness.”

And Moses said to the people, “Fear not: stand and see the great wonders of the Lord, which he will do this day: for the Egyptians, whom you see now, you shall see no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”

And the Lord said to Moses,  “Why cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel to go forward.  But lift up your rod, and stretch forth your hand over the sea, and divide it: that the children of Israel may go through the midst of the sea on dry ground.”

 And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.

And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried up: for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their left.

And the Egyptians pursuing went in after them, and all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots and horsemen through the midst of the sea.

And now the morning watch was come, and behold the Lord looking upon the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew their host and overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried into the deep. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from Israel: for the Lord fights for them against us.”

And the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch forth they hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and horsemen.”

And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves.

And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the army of Pharaoh, who had come into the sea after them, neither did there so much as one of them remain.

But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea upon dry land and the Lord delivered Israel on that day out of the hands of the Egyptians.

And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore, and the mighty hand that the Lord had used against them: and the people feared the Lord, and they believed the Lord, and Moses his servant.

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