1Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,
2Yah is my strength and song.
3Yahweh is a man of war.
4He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea.
5The deeps cover them.
6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power.
7In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.
8With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up.
9The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder.
10You blew with your wind.
11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?
12You stretched out your right hand.
13“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed.
14The peoples have heard.
15Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.
16Terror and dread falls on them.
17You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,
18Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”
19For 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.
20Miriam 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.
21Miriam answered them,
22Moses 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.
23When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.15:23 Marah means bitter.
24The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
25Then 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.
26He 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.”
27They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.