Psalms 78:13

King James Version

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He deuided the Sea, & led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.

Christian Standard Bible®
He split the sea and brought them across;the water stood firm like a wall.

Hebrew Names Version
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; He made the waters stand as a heap.

Easy-to-Read Version
He split the Red Sea and led the people across. The water stood like a solid wall on both sides of them.

Amplified Bible
He divided the [Red] Sea and allowed them to pass through it, And He made the waters stand up like [water behind] a dam.

American Standard Version
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.

Contemporary English Version
God made a path in the sea and piled up the water as he led them across.

Complete Jewish Bible
He split the sea and made them pass through, he made the waters stand up like a wall.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand as a heap.

King James Version (1611)
Hee diuided the Sea, and caused them to passe through: and he made the waters to stand as an heape.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He clave the sea, and led them through: he made the waters to stand as in a bottle.

English Revised Version
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

Berean Standard Bible
He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

Lexham English Bible
He split the sea and caused them to go over, and he caused waters to stand like a heap.

Literal Translation
He divided the sea and passed them through; and He caused the waters to stand in a heap.

New Century Version
He divided the Red Sea and led them through. He made the water stand up like a wall.

New English Translation
He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.

New King James Version
He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

New Living Translation
For he divided the sea and led them through, making the water stand up like walls!

New Life Bible
He divided the sea and made them pass through it. He made the water stand up like a wall.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through, And reared up the waters like a mound;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-13) He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

George Lamsa Translation
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as in skins.

Good News Translation
He divided the sea and took them through it; he made the waters stand like walls.

New American Standard Bible
He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He deuided the sea and let them go thorowe: he made the waters to stande as on an heape.

New Revised Standard
He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.

Darby Translation
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He brak the see, and ledde hem thorou; and he ordeynede the watris as in a bouge.

Young's Literal Translation
He cleft a sea, and causeth them to pass over, Yea, He causeth waters to stand as a heap.

World English Bible
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; He made the waters stand as a heap.

Revised Standard Version
He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.

Update Bible Version
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.

Webster's Bible Translation
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap.

Bible in Basic English
The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Maruelous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers in the londe of Egipte, euen in the felde of Zoan.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Legacy Standard Bible
He split the sea and caused them to pass through,And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Contextual Overview

⁹ The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. ¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; ¹¹ And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. ¹² Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. ¹³ He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. ¹⁴ In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. ¹⁵ He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. ¹⁶ He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. ¹⁷ And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. ¹⁸ And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He divided: Psalms 66:6, Psalms 106:9, Psalms 106:10, Psalms 136:13-15, Exodus 14:1 - Exodus 15:27, Isaiah 63:13, 1 Corinthians 10:2, 1 Corinthians 10:3

made: Psalms 38:7, Joshua 3:16, Habakkuk 3:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:21 - the Lord Exodus 14:22 - the children Exodus 15:8 - the floods Deuteronomy 11:3 - General Deuteronomy 26:8 - the Lord Joshua 3:13 - stand upon Joshua 4:23 - which he dried Joshua 24:6 - Egyptians Nehemiah 9:10 - showedst Nehemiah 9:11 - divide Psalms 74:13 - divide Psalms 136:14 - pass through Isaiah 43:16 - maketh Isaiah 63:12 - dividing Jeremiah 31:35 - which divideth Acts 7:36 - after Acts 13:17 - and with 1 Corinthians 10:1 - and all Hebrews 11:29 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He divided the sea,.... The Targum adds,

"by the rod of Moses their master;''

which he was ordered to lift up, and to stretch out his hand over the sea; which he did, and at the same time a strong east wind was raised, which caused the sea to go back, and divided the waters of it; see

Exodus 14:16

and caused them to pass through; that is, he caused the Israelites to pass through the sea; this they did in faith, Hebrews 11:29, in the faith of the power and promise of God, and of future grace and blessings, which this was an emblem of; for it was a representation of baptism, and is so called, 1 Corinthians 10:1 and of the sea of Christ's blood, or of his sufferings and death; whereby all enemies are overcome and destroyed, as sin and Satan, signified by the Egyptians, and salvation is wrought, and every blessing of grace procured; and of the passage of God's people through the sea of this world, and afflictions in it, safe to glory:

and he made the waters to stand as an heap; and were as a wall on the right hand and on the left hand so they continued until the Israelites had passed through; and then they returned, and covered the Egyptians, and drowned them, Exodus 14:22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He divided the sea ... - The Red Sea. Exodus 14:21-22.

And he made the waters to stand as an heap - The word rendered “heap” means anything piled up, or a mound; and the idea is, that the waters were piled up on each side of them as a “mound.” See the notes at Psalms 33:7. Compare Joshua 3:13, Joshua 3:16; Exodus 15:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:13. He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through — The reader is requested to consult the notes on the parallel passages marked in the margin on this verse and Psalms 78:14-17, &c., where all these miracles are largely explained.