Hebrews 11:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted to do so they were drowned.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ [Urged on] by faith the people crossed the Red Sea as [though] on dry land, but when the Egyptians tried to do the same thing they were swallowed up [by the sea]. [Exod. 14:21-31.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were swallowed up.

Common English Bible

²⁹ By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if they were on dry land, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were drowned.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ By faith, they crossed the Red Sea, as if on dry land, yet when the Egyptians attempted it, they were swallowed up.

Hebrews 11:29 Cross References

Exodus 14:13

But Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the Lord will accomplish for you today, for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again.

Psalm 78:13

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

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.

Psalm 66:6

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

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.

Exodus 14:22

The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

Exodus 14:27

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea returned to its normal depth. As the Egyptians fled before it, the Lord tossed the Egyptians into the sea.