Exodus 15:5

In 11 translations

BSB

The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.

KJV

The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

WEB

The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

ASV

The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.

LSV

The depths cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone.

YLT

The depths do cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone.

DBY

The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone.

DRC

The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.

GNV

The depths haue couered them, they sanke to the bottome as a stone.

JPS

The deeps cover them — they went down into the depths like a stone.

LXXE

He covered them with the sea: they sank to the depth like a stone.

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Original-language editions

WLC

תְּהֹמֹ֖ת יְכַסְיֻ֑מוּ יָרְד֥וּ בִמְצוֹלֹ֖ת כְּמוֹ־אָֽבֶן׃

LXX-Br

Πόντῳ ἐκάλυψεν αὐτούς· κατέδυσαν εἰς βυθὸν ὡσεὶ λίθος.

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• Crossing the Red Sea (and did the Exodus happen?) Israel fears death, trapped between the sea and Pharaoh's army; Moses urges trust in the LORD, and God commands an advance. An east wind dri…

Cross-references most cited first

• 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.
• Exodus 15:10But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
• Exodus 14:28The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
• Jeremiah 51:63–64When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates. Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And…
• Ezekiel 27:34Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.
• Micah 7:19He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
• Revelation 18:21Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.
• Jonah 2:2saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.
• Matthew 18:6But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

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