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At the water's edge the sea scorned Moses as younger than itself. Uzza sued in heaven, Nahshon leaped first, and Pharaoh's six hundred chariots sank.
An Egyptian taskmaster forced Shelomith while Dathan was driven to labor, until Moses struck the abuser dead and fled the men he had saved.
Ganon said God told him to lead his tribe out of Egypt. They packed gold and weapons but no food, and the shepherds of Gath would not sell them sheep.
Cattle had died, yet six hundred chariots rolled. The beasts belonged to Egyptians who feared God, and their fear became Israel's stumbling block at the sea.
Pharaoh learned Israel would not return, the sea crushed Egypt's host, and freed slaves could not stand until angels and fragrance healed them.
Officers told Moses that Israel was a sheep pulled by Pharaoh the wolf and by rescuers until the body tore, while Egypt planned total erasure.
At midnight God arrived with ninety million angels of destruction. He held them back and struck Egypt Himself, from firstborn sons to the oldest in each house.
Pappus taught that God matched Pharaoh horse for horse at the sea. When Moses ordered a turn back toward Egypt, Israel obeyed without panic.
After the sea closed on Egypt, Israel listed five gifts and asked to return. They hid an idol in the camp, and Moses stopped them by force.
One idol was left standing at Pi-hahiroth. Baal-zephon kept its shape while the other gods rotted and rusted, bait for a pursuit that ended in the sea.
They waited in groups for Moses to leave the house of study, then poured out blame. He had led them from a fruitful land into thirst.
God ordered Israel to reverse and camp between rocks and sea. The waters outsmarted Egypt's cunning, and darkness had already buried most of Israel unseen.
Moses shouted at the sky with the chariots already closing. The answer came back in family language, and then the lightning began herding Egypt.
Moses tried to hand the mission back. Aaron had prophesied in Egypt for eighty years, and Moses feared taking his brother's place.
Amalek reached Rephidim with no herald and no demand. Moses climbed the hill and argued the case to God with the staff that had split the sea.
Egypt froze in thick dark between camps. Shalishim filled the chariots, Israel cried, and God took honor from Pharaoh's fall before the waters closed.
A runner reached the oaks of Mamre with the news that Lot was gone. Abraham armed three hundred and eighteen house servants and went after four kings.
The darkness over Egypt was not total. It let them watch. All night they saw Israel eating in a light they could not walk into.
At the sea Moses kindled each phrase and Israel completed it. The Name warred without weapons, and faithfulness turned left hand into right.
Pharaoh's officers would not chase runaway brickmakers for nothing. He threw open the treasure houses and promised every man an equal share.
Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to wash off her father's idolatry. Her maidens told her the decree still stood. Gabriel struck them down on the bank.
At the bush Moses said Israel would not believe. God put the serpent's leprosy in his hand, then remade his mouth to carry a nation's redemption.
A king killed every bandit who had taken his son and still could not rest, because the boy kept telling him what they had done to him.
God detours Israel from the Philistine road. At the sea they enter to their noses, pluck fruit from water walls, and sing as dark yet comely.
Solomon made the shields of gold. Rehoboam replaced them with bronze. The kings kept shrinking until Zedekiah, whose eyes were put out.
Moses sang Az at the sea because alef and zayin make eight, the day of the covenant that tore the waters open.
Trapped between Egypt and the deep, Israel became the dove in the clefts. God asked for her voice, then the sea split and song rose.
After the firstborn died, Pharaoh summoned Moses at midnight and begged Israel to leave, even the flocks he once tried to hold as chains.
The coastal road was shorter. Along it lay Philistine war and Ephraimite bones. God took the people the long way so they would not turn back.
Pharaoh snuck to the river before dawn to hide a god's body, and Moses met him there while frogs later split even palace stone.
