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While the Egyptians were still mourning at the graves of their dead, they forgot why all this had happened, and they foolishly decided that the people they had begged to leave were runaways. So they chased after them. They were led into this as part of the punishment they deserved, so that they would suffer the rest of the torments they were due to receive.
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They were to meet a strange death, while your people continued on their miraculous journey.
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The whole nature of the universe was changed at your command so that your people would not be harmed.
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They saw the cloud over their camp and dry land where water had been. There was a grass-covered plain between the stormy waves of the Red Sea, making it easy for them to cross over.
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All your people, under your protection, saw this miracle and went across.
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They pranced about like horses let out to pasture; they skipped about like lambs and praised you, Lord, for saving them.
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They still remembered what life had been like when they were slaves - how the earth bred gnats instead of cattle, how the river produced huge numbers of frogs instead of fish.
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Later, when they desperately wanted better food, quails came up from the sea to satisfy their hunger. The quail was a bird they had never seen before.
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But violent thunder gave warning of the punishment that was coming on those sinners. They suffered a well-deserved punishment for their great wickedness. No nation had ever hated strangers so bitterly.