Exodul 14:21

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Moise şi -a întins mîna spre mare. Şi Domnul a pus marea în mişcare printr'un vînt dinspre răsărit, care a suflat cu putere toată noaptea; el a uscat marea, şi apele s'au despărţit în două.

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stretched: Exodus 14:16

the Lord: Exodus 15:8, Joshua 3:13-16, Joshua 4:23, Nehemiah 9:11, Job 26:12, Psalms 66:6, Psalms 74:13, Psalms 78:13, Psalms 106:7-10, Psalms 114:3-5, Psalms 136:13, Isaiah 51:10, Isaiah 51:15, Isaiah 63:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:1 - a wind Exodus 7:19 - stretch Exodus 10:13 - east wind Exodus 14:27 - and the sea Exodus 15:10 - blow Numbers 33:8 - departed Joshua 2:10 - For we 2 Samuel 22:16 - the channels 2 Kings 2:8 - were Psalms 77:16 - General Psalms 106:9 - He rebuked Psalms 148:8 - stormy Isaiah 10:24 - after the manner Isaiah 11:15 - with his mighty Isaiah 43:16 - maketh Isaiah 50:2 - I dry Jeremiah 31:35 - which divideth Jeremiah 51:16 - bringeth Jonah 1:4 - the Lord Habakkuk 3:8 - the Lord Zechariah 10:11 - smite Acts 7:36 - in the Red Acts 27:14 - not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,.... With his rod in it, as he was directed to, Exodus 14:16. What the poet says z of Bacchus is more true of Moses, whose rod had been lift up upon the rivers Egypt, and now upon the Red sea:

and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night; and the direction of the Red sea being nearly, if not altogether, north and south, it was in a proper situation to be wrought upon and divided by an easterly wind; though the Septuagint version renders it a strong south wind. No wind of itself, without the exertion and continuance of almighty power, in a miraculous way, could have so thrown the waves of the sea on heaps, and retained them so long, that such a vast number of people should pass through it as on dry land; though this was an instrument Jehovah made use of, and that both to divide the waters of the sea, and to dry and harden the bottom of it, and make it fit for travelling, as follows:

and made the sea dry land; or made the bottom of it dry, so that it could be trod and walked upon with ease, without sinking in, sticking fast, or slipping about, which was very extraordinary:

and the waters were divided; or "after the waters were divided" a; for they were first divided before the sea could be made dry. The Targum of Jonathan says, the waters were divided into twelve parts, answerable to the twelve tribes of Israel, and the same is observed by other Jewish writers b, grounded upon a passage in Psalms 136:13 and suppose that each tribe took its particular path.

z "Tu flectis amnes, tu mare barbarum--" Horat. Carmin. l. 2. Ode 19. a ויבקעו "quum diffidisset se aqua illius", Piscator; so ו seems to be used in ch. xvi. 20. b Pirke Eliezer, c. 42. Targum Jon. & Hieros. in Deut. i. 1. Jarchi, Kimchi, and Arama in Psal. cxxxvi. 13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A strong east wind - The agency by which the object effected was natural (compare Exodus 15:8 note): and the conditions of the narrative are satisfied by the hypothesis, that the passage took place near Suez.

The waters were divided - i. e. there was a complete separation between the water of the gulf and the water to the north of Kolsum.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 14:21. The Lord caused the sea to go back — That part of the sea over which the Israelites passed was, according to Mr. Bruce and other travellers, about four leagues across, and therefore might easily be crossed in one night. In the dividing of the sea two agents appear to be employed, though the effect produced can be attributed to neither. By stretching out the rod the waters were divided; by the blowing of the vehement, ardent, east wind, the bed of the sea was dried. It has been observed, that in the place where the Israelites are supposed to have passed, the water is about fourteen fathoms or twenty-eight yards deep: had the wind mentioned here been strong enough, naturally speaking, to have divided the waters, it must have blown in one narrow track, and continued blowing in the direction in which the Israelites passed; and a wind sufficient to have raised a mass of water twenty-eight yards deep and twelve miles in length, out of its bed, would necessarily have blown the whole six hundred thousand men away, and utterly destroyed them and their cattle. I therefore conclude that the east wind, which was ever remarked as a parching, burning wind, was used after the division of the waters, merely to dry the bottom, and render it passable. For an account of the hot drying winds in the east, Genesis 8:1; Genesis 8:1. God ever puts the highest honour on his instrument, Nature; and where it can act, he ever employs it. No natural agent could divide these waters, and cause them to stand as a wall upon the right hand and upon the left; therefore God did it by his own sovereign power. When the waters were thus divided, there was no need of a miracle to dry the bed of the sea and make it passable; therefore the strong desiccating east wind was brought, which soon accomplished this object. In this light I suppose the text should be understood.