Exo 1:10-16, 14:9, 21-31, 15:6-10 | ESV | STEP | Come , let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply , and, if war breaks out , they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land .

10 ^aCome, ^blet us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them ^cto afflict them with heavy ^dburdens. They built for Pharaoh ^estore cities, Pithom and ^fRaamses. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. 13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel ^gwork as slaves 14 and ^hmade their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16 “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

Exodus 14:9

9 The ⁱEgyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them ^jencamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.

Exodus 14:21-31

21 Then Moses ^kstretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by ^la strong east wind all night and ^mmade the sea dry land, and the waters were ⁿdivided. 22 And ^othe people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being ^pa wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23 The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, 25 clogging ^{▼▼Or binding (compare Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac); Hebrew removing} their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the ^rLord fights for them against the Egyptians.”

26 Then the Lord said to Moses, ^s“Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” 27 ^tSo Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea ^ureturned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord ^vthrew ^{▼▼Hebrew shook off} the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. 28 The ^xwaters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, ^ynot one of them remained. 29 But the ^zpeople of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

30 Thus the Lord ^aasaved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 ^abIsrael saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they ^acbelieved in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

Exodus 15:6-10

6 ^adYour right hand, O Lord, glorious in power,
your right hand, O Lord, ^aeshatters the enemy.
7 In the ^afgreatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries;
you send out your fury; it ^agconsumes them like stubble.
8 At the ^ahblast of your nostrils the waters piled up;
the ^aifloods stood up in a heap;
the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, ^aj‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
I ^akwill divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
10 You ^alblew with your wind; the ^amsea covered them;
they sank like lead in the mighty waters.