Hebrews 11:29
Good News Translation
It was faith that made the Israelites able to cross the Red Sea as if on dry land; when the Egyptians tried to do it, the water swallowed them up.

New Revised Standard Version
By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted to do so they were drowned.

Contemporary English Version
Because of their faith, the people walked through the Red Sea on dry land. But when the Egyptians tried to do it, they were drowned.

New American Bible
By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted it they were drowned.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up.

Exodus 14:13-31 And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the great wonders of the Lord, which he will do this day; for the Egyptians, whom you see now, you shall see no more for ever. . . .

Exodus 15:1-21 Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the Lord, and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea. . . .

Joshua 2:10 We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea, at your going in, when you came out of Egypt: and what things you did to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan, Sehon and Og whom you slew.

Nehemiah 9:11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.

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

Psalm 78:13 He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

Psalm 106:9-11 And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness. . . .

Psalm 114:1-5 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people: . . .

Psalm 136:13-15 Who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

Isaiah 11:15,16 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. . . .

Isaiah 51:9,10 Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord, arise as in the days of old, in the ancient generations. Hast not thou struck the proud one, and wounded the dragon? . . .

Isaiah 63:11-16 And he remembered the days of old of Moses, and of his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put in the midst of them the spirit of his Holy One? . . .

Habakkuk 3:8-10 Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was thy wrath upon the rivers? or thy indignation in the sea? Who will ride upon thy horses: and thy chariots are salvation. . . .

Context
The Faith of Moses
28By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood: that he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them. 29By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up. 30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them seven days.…
Cross References
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 14:27
And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves.

Hebrews 11:28
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