God's Presence At The Red Sea

Rabbi Yehudah says: Who recited praise to the Holy One, blessed be He? The little children, those whom Pharaoh sought to cast into the Nile, for they recognized the Holy One, blessed be He. How so? When Israel was in Egypt, and a woman among the daughters of Israel sought to give birth, she would go out into the field and give birth there. And once she had given birth, she would leave the child and hand him over to the Holy One, blessed be He, and say: Master of the world, I have done my part, and You do Your part. Rabbi Yochanan said: Immediately the Holy One, blessed be He, would come down in His glory, as it were, and cut their navel cords and wash them and anoint them. And so Ezekiel said (Ezekiel 16:5): "And you were cast out into the open field in the loathing of your soul"; and it is written (Ezekiel 16:4): "And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut"; and it is written (Ezekiel 16:10): "And I clothed you with embroidered cloth"; and it is written (Ezekiel 16:9): "And I washed you with water." And He would place two pebbles in his hand, one nursing him with oil and one nursing him with honey, as it is said (Deuteronomy 32:13): "And He made him suck honey from the rock." And they would grow up in the field, as it is said (Ezekiel 16:7): "I made you as numerous as the plants of the field." And once they had grown, they would enter their houses to their fathers, and they would ask them: Who attended to you? And they would say to them: One handsome and praiseworthy young man would come down and do for us all our needs, as it is said (Song of Songs 5:10): "My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand." And when Israel came to the sea, those children were there, and they saw the Holy One, blessed be He, at the sea. They began to say to their fathers: This is the very one who did for us all those things when we were in Egypt, as it is said: "This is my God, and I will glorify Him" (Exodus 15:2).