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The cloud was seen overshadowing the camp, and dry land emerging where water had stood before, an unhindered way out of the Red Sea, and a grassy plain out of the raging waves,
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and that thy people might experience an incredible journey, but they themselves might meet a strange death.
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For the whole creation in its nature was fashioned anew, complying with thy commands, that thy children might be kept unharmed.
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The cloud was seen overshadowing the camp, and dry land emerging where water had stood before, an unhindered way out of the Red Sea, and a grassy plain out of the raging waves,
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where those protected by thy hand passed through as one nation, after gazing on marvelous wonders.
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For they ranged like horses, and leaped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who didst deliver them.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.