The Angel's Hand · Mission
The Pillar of Cloud at the Red Sea
By the Red Sea · Exodus 14
Pharaoh's chariots are coming up behind. Ahead is the sea. You have to stand between the chariots and the tents of Israel until dawn.
The band facing the dark side of the pillar stands still. The others come one step each move. The light falls only on the side opposite the darkness, and tents left in the dark fill with fear.
You are the angel. Push the scene with your hand until The Pillar of Cloud at the Red Sea ends the way the text says. No rewind, no peeking at the text: First try.
What happens in Exodus 14
As Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel saw the Egyptians marching after them. They were very afraid and cried out to Yahweh.
They asked Moses whether he had taken them away to die in the wilderness because there were no graves in Egypt.
Moses told the people not to be afraid, to stand still and see the salvation of Yahweh. Yahweh would fight for them, and they were to be still.
Yahweh told Moses to have the children of Israel go forward, and to lift up his rod and stretch out his hand over the sea to divide it.
The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel.
There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by night, and one did not come near the other all night.
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night. The sea became dry land and the waters were divided.
The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Exodus 14:10-22 · World English Bible
10 When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
11 They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
12 Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
13 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.
14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
15 Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.
16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.
17 Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”
19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.
21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
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