Exodus 14:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea dry land; and the waters were divided.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Common English Bible

²¹ Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD pushed the sea back by a strong east wind all night, turning the sea into dry land. The waters were split into two.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And when Moses had extended his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by an intense burning wind, blowing throughout the night, and he turned it into dry ground. And the water was divided.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night; and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.

Exodus 14:21 Cross References

Genesis 8:1

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and all the domestic animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;

2 Kings 2:8

Then Elijah took his mantle and rolled it up and struck the water; the water was parted to the one side and to the other, and the two of them crossed on dry ground.

Nehemiah 9:11

And you divided the sea before them, so that they passed through the sea on dry land, but you threw their pursuers into the depths like a stone into mighty waters.

Job 26:12

By his power he stilled the Sea; by his understanding he struck down Rahab.

Job 38:24

What is the way to the place where the light is distributed or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

Psalm 136:13

who divided the Red Sea in two, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalm 148:8

fire and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind fulfilling his command!

Psalm 66:6

He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in him,

Psalm 74:13

You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Psalm 78:13

He divided the sea and let them pass through it and made the waters stand like a heap.

Exodus 14:16

But you lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the Israelites may go into the sea on dry ground.

Exodus 14:20

It came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel. And so the cloud was there with the darkness, and it lit up the night; one did not come near the other all night.

Exodus 15:8

At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.

Exodus 7:19

The Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over its rivers, its canals, and its ponds, and all its pools of water—so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout the whole land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.”

Isaiah 23:11

He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has shaken the kingdoms; the Lord has given command concerning Canaan, to destroy its fortresses.

Isaiah 43:16

Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,

Isaiah 44:27

who says to the deep, “Be dry— I will dry up your rivers”;

Isaiah 50:2

Why was no one there when I came? Why did no one answer when I called? Is my arm powerless to redeem? Or have I no strength to deliver? By my rebuke I dry up the sea; I make the rivers a desert, so that their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.

Isaiah 51:10

Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to cross over?

Isaiah 51:15

For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 63:12

who caused his glorious arm to march at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,

Isaiah 63:13

who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the desert, they did not stumble.

Habakkuk 3:8

Was your wrath against the rivers, O Lord, or your anger against the rivers or your rage against the sea, when you drove your horses, your chariots to victory?

Acts 7:36

He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Joshua 2:10

For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

Joshua 3:17

While all Israel were crossing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, until the entire nation finished crossing over the Jordan.

Joshua 4:23

For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we crossed over,