New English Translation
Exodus 15:10
10But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus 15:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
- New International Version (NIV)But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You blew with Your wind, The sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Context of Exodus 15:10
8By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea. 9The enemy said, ‘I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.’ But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you? – majestic in holiness, fearful in praises, working wonders? 12You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
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נָשַׁ֥פְתָּ בְרוּחֲךָ֖ כִּסָּ֣מוֹ יָ֑ם צָֽלֲלוּ֙ כַּֽעוֹפֶ֔רֶת בְּמַ֖יִם אַדִּירִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Exodus 15:10
- Exodus 14:21Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the Lord drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.
- Genesis 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.
- Psalms 74:13You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water.
- Psalms 135:7He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.
- Psalms 147:18He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.
- Isaiah 11:15The Lord will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals.
- Jeremiah 10:13When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.
- Amos 4:13For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The Lord, the God who commands armies, is his name!”
- Matthew 8:27And the men were amazed and said, “What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!”
- Exodus 14:28The water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh that was coming after the Israelites into the sea – not so much as one of them survived!
- Deuteronomy 11:4or what he did to the army of Egypt, including their horses and chariots, when he made the waters of the Red Sea overwhelm them while they were pursuing you and he annihilated them.
- Exodus 15:5The depths have covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone.
Commentaries on Exodus 15:10
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-18Verses 1-18 With the deliverance of Israel is associated the development of the national poetry, which finds its first and perfect expression in this magnificent hymn. It was sung by Moses and the people, an expression which evidently points to him as the author. That it was written at the time is an assertion expressly made in the text, and it is supported by the strongest internal evidence. In every age this song gave the tone to the poetry of Israel…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-10Compared to the Creator’s plans, all the plans of even the most powerful humans are nothing (see Psalm 2:2–5). They are like dust that can be blown away with one puff of his breath (see Isaiah 40:15–17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271. Then sang Moses and the children of Israel--The scene of this thanksgiving song is supposed to have been at the landing place on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, at Ayoun Musa, "the fountains of Moses." They are situated somewhat farther northward along the shore than the opposite point from which the Israelites set out. But the line of the people would be extended during the passage, and one extremity of it would reach as far north as these…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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