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OET-RV by cross-referenced section EXO 15:1

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This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

Mosheh’s song

Exo 15:1–19

15 Then Mosheh and the Israelis sang this song to Yahweh:[ref]

“I will sing to Yahweh because he’s been so successful—

he’s thrown both the horses and their riders into the sea.

2 I will sing about Yahweh, my source of strength,[ref]

and the one who saves me.

I will praise him because he’s my god—

≈ he’s my father’s god and I will honour him.

3 Yahweh is a warrior.

Yahweh is his name.


4 He threw Far’oh’s chariots and his army into the sea.

≈ His hand-picked officers have been sunk in the sea.


5 The deep waters cover them.

≈ They descended into the depths like a stone.

6 Yahweh’s right arm is so powerful.

≈ Yahweh’s right arm shattered our enemy.

7 You toss away your adversaries with your great power.

Your burning anger consumes them like straw in a fire.

8 It was your breath that made the waters pile up.

They stood up like a heap.

The deep water seemed like it was solid.

9 Our enemies thought that they could chase after us and overtake us.

They had planned to satisfy themselves by sharing out the plunder.

They were ready to use their swords and swing their arms to destroy us.

10 But you blew with your breath.

The sea covered them.

They sank like lead in that terrible surge.


11 Which other god is like you, Yahweh?

Who else is so powerful and yet sinless,

receiving praises for doing miracles?

12 You stretched out your powerful arm.

The earth swallowed them up.

13 You are leading the people you bought back,

because you committed yourself to love them.

You used your strength to lead them to your sinless home.

14 Other countries have heard, and they tremble.

≈ Anguish has struck the inhabitants of Filistia.

15 The chiefs of Edom have panicked.

≈ Trembling has seized the leaders of Moab.

≈ The inhabitants of Kanaan have melted away.

16 Terror and dread have fallen on them.

After seeing your great power, they’ve stayed as still as stone

until your people have all marched past, Yahweh.

Until the people you bought have all gone past them.

17 Bring them into the land

and establish them on the mountain of your inheritance.

The place you’ve chosen to become your home, Yahweh—

a sanctuary built by your hands, master.

18 Yahweh will reign as king forever and ever.

19 Far’oh’s horse went into the sea, along with his chariots and horsemen,[fn]

and Yahweh brought the water back over them,

after the Israelis had walked through on dry ground in the middle of the sea.”


15:19 Some interpreters include v19 as part of Mosheh’s song (as we do, although it does seem less poetic in structure), while others don’t. (There’s no speech marks in the ancient Hebrew texts.)


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Rev 15:3:

3 and singing this song that came from God’s slave Mosheh, and from the lamb, which went:[ref]

“What you do, Yahweh God, ruler over everything,

is powerful and marvellous.

Your ways PATHS? are fair and honest,

king of the ages.[fn]


15:2 TC: There’s a textual variant here where some manuscripts have ‘εθνων’ (nations) and other readings instead of the older reading: ‘αἰώνων’ (ages).


15:3: Exo 15:1.

Psa 118:14:

14 Yahweh is my strength and my song,

and he’s the one who rescues me.

Isa 12:2:

2 Yes, God is the one who saves me.

I will trust him and not be afraid

because my strength and the one I sing about is Yah—Yahweh,

and he’s rescued me from my enemies.[ref]


12:2: Exo 15:2; Psa 118:14.

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