And he turned here and there, and he saw no one, and he struck the Egyptian, and he hid him in the sand.

Then Moses and the Israelis sang this song to the LORD: "I'll sing to the LORD, for he is highly exalted. The horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.

"Pharaoh's chariots and his army he has hurled into the sea; his best officers sank in the Reed Sea.

The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

"You blew with your breath, and the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.

Miriam sang to them, "Sing to the LORD, for he is highly exalted! The horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea."

And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.