1 Então Moisés e os israelitas entoaram em honra do Senhor o seguinte cântico: "Cantarei ao Senhor, porque ele manifestou sua glória. Precipitou no mar cavalos e cavaleiros.
2 O Senhor é a minha força e o objeto do meu cântico; foi ele quem me salvou. Ele é o meu Deus - eu o celebrarei; o Deus de meu pai - eu o exaltarei.
3 O Senhor é o herói dos combates, seu nome é Javé.
4 Lançou no mar os carros do faraó e o seu exército; a elite de seus combatentes afogou-se no mar Vermelho;
5 o abismo os cobriu; afundaram-se nas águas como pedra.
6 A vossa {mão} direita, ó Senhor, manifestou sua força. Vossa direita aniquilou o inimigo.
7 Por vossa soberana majestade derrotais vossos adversários; desencadeais vossa cólera, e ela os consome como palha.
8 Ao sopro de vosso furor amontoaram-se as águas; levantaram-se as ondas como muralha, solidificaram-se as vagas no coração do mar.
9 Dizia o inimigo: perseguirei, alcançarei, repartirei o despojo, satisfarei meu desejo de vingança, desembainharei a espada, minha mão os destruirá.
10 Ao sopro de vosso hálito o mar os sepultou; submergiram como chumbo na vastidão das águas.
11 Quem entre os deuses é semelhante a vós, Senhor? Quem é semelhante a vós, glorioso por vossa santidade, temível por vossos feitos dignos de louvor, e que operais prodígios?
12 Apenas estendestes a mão, e a terra os tragou.
13 Conduzistes com bondade esse povo, que libertastes; e com vosso poder o guiastes à vossa morada santa.
14 Ao ouvir isso, estremeceram os povos. Um pavor imenso apoderou-se dos filisteus;
15 os chefes de Edom ficaram aterrados; a angústia tomou conta dos valentes de Moab; tremeram de medo todos os habitantes de Canaã.
16 Caíram sobre eles o terror e a angústia, o poder do vosso braço os petrificou, até que tivesse passado o vosso povo, Senhor até que tivesse passado o povo que adquiristes para vós.
17 Conduzi-lo-eis e o plantareis na montanha que vos pertence, no lugar que preparastes para vossa habitação, Senhor, no santuário, Senhor, que vossas mãos fundaram.
18 O Senhor é rei para sempre, sem fim!"
19 Os cavalos do faraó, com efeito, entraram no mar com seus carros e seus cavaleiros, e o Senhor os envolveu nas águas, enquanto os israelitas passaram a pé enxuto o leito do mar.
20 A profetisa Maria, irmã de Aarão, tomou seu tamborim na mão, e todas as mulheres seguiram-na dançando com tamborins.
21 Maria as acompanhava entoando: "Cantai ao Senhor, porque fez brilhar a sua glória, precipitou no mar cavalos e cavaleiros!"
22 Moisés fez partir os israelitas do mar Vermelho e os dirigiu para o deserto de Sur. Caminharam três dias no deserto, sem encontrar água.
23 Chegaram a Mara, onde não puderam beber de sua água, porque era amarga, de onde o nome de Mara que deram a esse lugar.
24 Então o povo murmurou contra Moisés: "Que havemos de beber?"
25 Moisés clamou ao Senhor, e o Senhor indicou-lhe um madeiro que ele jogou na água. E esta tornou-se doce. Foi nesse lugar que o Senhor deu ao povo preceitos e leis, e ali o provou.
26 Disse-lhe: "Se ouvires a voz do Senhor, teu Deus, e fizeres o que é reto aos seus olhos, se inclinares os ouvidos às suas ordens e observares todas as suas leis, não mandarei sobre ti nenhum dos males com que acabrunhei o Egito, porque eu sou o Senhor que te cura."
27 E chegaram a Elim, onde havia doze fontes de água e setenta palmeiras; e ali acamparam junto das águas.
1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,
"I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
2 Yah is my strength and song.
He has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him;
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 Yahweh is a man of war.
Yahweh is his name.
4 He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea.
His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
5 The deeps cover them.
They went down into the depths like a stone.
6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power.
Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.
You send out 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 plunder.
My desire will be satisfied on them.
I will draw my sword. My hand will 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, Yahweh, among the gods?
Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand.
The earth swallowed them.
13 "You, in your loving kindness, 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 of the inhabitants of Philistia.
15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.
Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab.
All the inhabitants of Canaan have 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, Yahweh,
until the people you have purchased pass over.
17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,
the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in:
the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
18 Yahweh will reign forever and ever."
19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea. 20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. 21 Miriam answered them,
"Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea."
22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, 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 its name was called Marah. 24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" 25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed 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 He said, "If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."
27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.