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¶The .xiiij. Chapter.

1 God commaundeth to pitche their pauilions in a daungerous place, that he may be the more glorified. 4 God hardeneth the heart of Pharao. 5 Pharao pursueth Israel. 10 The Israelites dispayryng of deliueraunce do grudge. 13 Moyses promiseth them their safetie by God. 15 Moyses crying to God, is cōmaunded to deuide the sea with his rod. 19 The angell folowyng the tentes of Israel, they passe through the middes of the sea. 24 God drowneth Pharao with his armie. 31 The Israelites do feare God when they see the miracle.

[unspec A] 1 AND the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:

2 Speake to the chyl∣drē of Israel, that they turne & pitch their ten∣tes before Pi-hahiroth betweene Migdol and the sea, ouer agaynst Baal-sephon, and before that shall they pitche by the sea.

3 For Pharao wyll say of the chyldren of Israel: they are tangled in the lande, the wyldernesse hath shut them in.

4 And I wyll harden Pharaos heart, that he shall folowe after you, and I wyll get me honour vpon Pharao, and vpon al his hoast: The Egyptians also shall knowe that I am the Lorde. And they dyd euen so.

5 And it was tolde the kyng of Egypt that the people fledde. And the heart of Pharao and of his seruauntes turned agaynst the people, and they said: Why haue we done this, that we haue let Is∣rael go out of our seruice?

6 And he made redy his charette, and toke his people with hym.

[unspec B] 7 And toke sixe hundred chosen charets, and all the charets of Egypt, and capi∣taynes vpon euery one of them.

8 And the Lorde hardened the heart of Pharao kyng of Egypt, and he folowed after y^e children of Israel: but the childrē of Israel went out with an hye hande.

9 And the Egyptians folowed after thē, and al the horses and charettes of Pha∣rao, and his horsemen, and his hoast ouertoke them pitchyng of their tent by the sea beside Pi-hahiroth before Ba∣al-sephon.

10 And when Pharao drewe nygh, the chyldren of Israel lift vp their eyes, and beholde, the Egyptians folowed after them, and they were sore afrayde: and the chyldren of Israel cryed out vnto the Lorde.

11 But they sayde vnto Moyses: (a) 1.1 be∣cause there were no graues in Egypt, hast thou therfore brought vs away for to dye in the wildernesse? Wherfore hast thou serued vs thus, for to carry vs out of Egypt?

12 Dyd not we tell thee this in Egypt, saying, let vs be in rest, that we maye serue the Egyptians? For it had ben bet∣ter [unspec C] for vs to haue serued the Egyptians, then for to dye in the wyldernesse.

13 (b) 1.2And Moyses saide vnto the people: Feare ye not, stande styll, and beholde the saluation of the Lorde whiche he wyll shewe to you this day: For ye that haue seene the Egyptians this day, shal see them no more for euer.

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14 (c) 1.3The Lorde shall fyght for you, and ye shall holde your peace.

15 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Wherfore (d) 1.4 cryest thou vnto me? speake vnto the children of Israel that they go forwarde.

16 But lyft thou vp thy rod, and stretche out thy hande ouer the sea, and deuide it a sunder, and let the children of Israel go on drye grounde through the middes of the sea.

[unspec C] 17 And beholde I [euen] I wyll harden the heart of the Egyptians, and they shall folowe after them: and I wyll get me honour vpon Pharao, and vpon all his hoast, and vpon his charettes, and vpon his horsemen.

18 (e) 1.5And the Egyptians shal know that I am the Lorde, when I haue gotten me honour vpō Pharao, vpon his cha∣rets, and vpon his horsemen.

19 (f) 1.6And the angell of God which went before the hoast of Israel, remoued and went behynde them: and the pyller of the cloude went from before their face, and stoode behynde them,

20 And came betweene the tentes of the Egyptians, and the tentes of Israel, and it was a cloude and darknesse, and gaue lyght by nyght: and all the nyght long the one came not at the other.

21 And Moyses stretched out his hande ouer the sea, & the Lorde caused the sea to go backe by a very strong east wynde all that nyght, and made the sea drye [lande] and the waters were deuided.

22 (g) 1.7And the children of Israel went in∣to the middest of the sea vppon the drye [grounde,] and the waters were a wall vnto them on their ryght hande and on their left hande. [unspec D]

23 And the Egyptians folowed, & went in after them (h) 1.8 to the myddest of the sea, euen all Pharaos horses, his cha∣rettes, and his horsemen.

24 (i) 1.9And in the mornyng watche, the Lord loked vnto the hoast of the Egyp∣tians out of the pyller of the fire and of the cloude, and troubled the hoast of the Egyptians,

25 (k) 1.10And toke of his charet wheeles, and caryed them away violently: So that the Egyptians sayde, (l) 1.11 Let vs flee frō the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them agaynst the Egyptians.

26 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Stretche out thyne hande ouer the sea, that the waters may come againe vpon the Egyptians, vpon their charets, and vpon their horsemen.

27 And Moyses stretched foorth his hand ouer the sea,* 1.12 and it came agayne to his course early in the mornyng, and the E∣gyptians fled agaynst it: and the Lorde ouerthrewe the Egyptians in the mid∣dest of the sea.

28 And the water returned, and couered the charettes, and the horsemen, and all the hoast of Pharao that came into the sea after them, so that there remayned

not one of them.

29 But the children of Israel walked vp∣pon drye [lande] through the middest of the sea, and the waters were a wall vn∣to them on the right hande of them, and on the left.

30 Thus the Lorde deliuered Israel the selfe same daye out of the hande of the Egyptians: and Israel sawe the Egyp∣tians dead vpon the sea syde.

31 (m) 1.13And Israel sawe that myghtie po∣wer which the Lorde shewed vpon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lorde, and beleued the Lorde and his seruaunt Moyses.

Notes

• (a) 1.1

  See the inconstauncie and vnkynde dealyng of the people: They burden Moy∣ses their gyde, not cōsidering the power of God, but the commō course of thynges naturall.
• (b) 1.2

  Moyses nothyng dis∣couraged, go∣eth forwarde manfully in his callyng, a worthie pa∣terne for the godly alwayes to embrace.
• (c) 1.3

  When we be hardest bestedde, our strength shall stand in hope & quiet silence, God mightily fyghtyng for vs.
• (d) 1.4

  This crye is to be vn∣derstand, not of the sounde of his voyce, but of the ear∣nest affection of his heart.
• (e) 1.5

  Gods dredful iudge∣ment is execu∣ted agaynst them that re∣sist his ryght hande.
• (f) 1.6

  A notable example of Gods pro∣uidence.
• (g) 1.7

  Thus to the Israelites there aryseth lyght in dark∣nesse, and in the middest of death, they fynde lyfe.
• (h) 1.8

  See the vayne confi∣dence of the vngodly, to their vtter vn¦doyng, presu∣myng of their owne strength
• (i) 1.9

  This is the angell mentioned be∣fore, to witte, the sonne of God, not o∣therwyse to be called by the name Iehoua
• (k) 1.10

  Gods prouidence stretcheth to the least thin∣ges that is: so that Charret wheeles can not be out of the reache.
• (l) 1.11

  Late repentaunce helpeth not the vngodly, whose heart is not chaunged.
• * 1.12

  The last plague.
• (m) 1.13

  The be∣nefi••es that we receaue of God, and his iudgementes agaynst the wicked, tende al to this pur∣pose, that we shoulde stande in feare of hym, and be strengthened in the fayth of his promises.