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What happened at the Red Sea?

Exodus 14:21

No miracles in the OT have suffered more skepticism than the dividing of the Red Sea. Many natural explanations have been proposed for what happened on the night of Israel's deliverance from Egypt. But the Bible says that God caused a wind from the east to blow and divide the water into two gigantic walls, with a dry path between them upon which the Hebrew people escaped the Egyptian army. How high were the walls of water? No one knows—but the Bible says that when Moses stretched out his rod and divided the Red Sea, God divided it wide enough that the entire Israelite encampment could walk through.

The most important thing to know about the crossing of the Red Sea is not how it happened or what it looked like, but the fact that God did it. This miracle is a reference point for God's power that is repeated throughout Scripture (Ps. 66:6; 74:13; 78:13; 106:9; 136:13, 14).

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