the Fourth Week of Advent
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Exodus 15
1 Then Moshe and the children of Yisra'el sang this song to the LORD, and said, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. 2 The LORD is my strength and song, He has become my yeshu`ah: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him. 3 The LORD is a man of war. The LORD is his name. 4 Par`oh's chariots and his host has he cast into the sea; His chosen captains are sunk in the Sea of Suf. 5 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone. 6 Your right hand, LORD, is glorious in power, Your right hand, LORD, dashes the enemy in pieces. 7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you: You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble. 8 With 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. 9 The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.' 10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like you, LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12 You stretched out your right hand. The eretz swallowed them. 13 "You, in your lovingkindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation. 14 The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Peleshet. 15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Mo'av. All the inhabitants of Kana`an are melted away. 16 Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone; Until your people pass over, LORD, Until the people pass over who you have purchased. 17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, The place, LORD, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; The sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established. 18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever." 19 For the horses of Par`oh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Yisra'el walked on dry land in the midst of the sea. 20 Miryam the prophetess, the sister of Aharon, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 Miryam answered them, "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."
22 Moshe led Yisra'el onward from the Sea of Suf, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23 When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 The people murmured against Moshe, saying, "What shall we drink?" 25 Then he cried to the LORD. The LORD shown him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them; 26 and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his mitzvot, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Mitzrim; for I am the LORD who heals you." 27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
