The water heaped up(A) at the blast from your nostrils;
the currents stood firm like a dam.
The watery depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

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By the blast of your nostrils(A)
    the waters piled up.(B)
The surging waters stood up like a wall;(C)
    the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.(D)

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16 and the water flowing downstream stood still, rising up in a mass that extended as far as[a] Adam, a city next to Zarethan. The water flowing downstream into the Sea of the Arabah(A)—the Dead Sea—was completely cut off, and the people crossed opposite Jericho.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:16 Alt Hb tradition reads mass at

16 the water from upstream stopped flowing.(A) It piled up in a heap(B) a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan,(C) while the water flowing down(D) to the Sea of the Arabah(E) (that is, the Dead Sea(F)) was completely cut off.(G) So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.(H)

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11 You divided the sea before them,
and they crossed through it on dry ground.(A)
You hurled their pursuers into the depths
like a stone into raging water.(B)

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11 You divided the sea before them,(A) so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths,(B) like a stone into mighty waters.(C)

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13 You divided the sea with your strength;
you smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the water;(A)

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13 It was you who split open the sea(A) by your power;
    you broke the heads of the monster(B) in the waters.

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The sea looked and fled;(A)
the Jordan turned back.(B)

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The sea looked and fled,(A)
    the Jordan turned back;(B)

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Why was it, sea, that you fled?
Jordan, that you turned back?(A)

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Why was it, sea, that you fled?(A)
    Why, Jordan, did you turn back?

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12 He made his glorious strength
available at the right hand of Moses,
divided the water before them(A)
to make an eternal name for himself,
13 and led them through the depths
like a horse in the wilderness,
so that they did not stumble.

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12 who sent his glorious arm(A) of power
    to be at Moses’ right hand,
who divided the waters(B) before them,
    to gain for himself everlasting renown,(C)
13 who led(D) them through the depths?(E)
Like a horse in open country,
    they did not stumble;(F)

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