Exodus 14:29
Good News Translation
But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on both sides.

New Revised Standard Version
But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

Contemporary English Version
But the sea had made a wall of water on each side of the Israelites, so they walked through on dry land.

New American Bible
But the Israelites had walked on dry land through the midst of the sea, with the water as a wall to their right and to their left.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea upon dry land, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand and on the left:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea upon dry land, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand and on the left:

walked

Exodus 14:22 And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried up; for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their left.

Job 38:8-11 Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb: . . .

Psalm 66:6,7 Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on foot: there shall we rejoice in him. . . .

Psalm 77:19,20 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known. . . .

Psalm 78:52,53 And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. . . .

Isaiah 43:2 When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee:

Isaiah 51:10,13 Hast not thou dried up the sea, the water of the mighty deep, who madest the depth of the sea a way, that the delivered might pass over? . . .

Isaiah 63:12,13 He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of his majesty: that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name. . . .

a wall

Joshua 3:16 The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.

Context
Parting the Red Sea
28And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the army of Pharao, who had come into the sea after them, neither did there so much as one of them remain. 29But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea upon dry land, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand and on the left:30And the Lord delivered Israel in that day out of the hands of the Egyptians.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:1
For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea.

Exodus 14:22
And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried up; for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their left.

Exodus 15:8
And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea.

Exodus 15:19
For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof.

Psalm 66:6
Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on foot: there shall we rejoice in him.

Isaiah 11:15
And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and shall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the seven streams, so that men may pass through it in their shoes.

Exodus 14:28
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