Exodus 15:10

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“But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.”

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BSBPD

“But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 15:10 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
  2. Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
  3. Exodus 14:27So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.
  4. Exodus 15:5The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
  5. Deuteronomy 11:4what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;
  6. 2 Samuel 18:8The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
  7. Nehemiah 9:11You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
  8. Psalms 74:13You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
  9. Psalms 135:7He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
  10. Psalms 147:18He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
  11. Isaiah 11:15The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
  12. Jeremiah 10:13When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
  13. Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
  14. Matthew 8:27The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey Him!”

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