¹ Alors Moïse et les enfants d'Israël chantèrent ce cantique à l'Eternel. Ils dirent: Je chanterai à l'Eternel, car il a fait éclater sa gloire; Il a précipité dans la mer le cheval et son cavalier.

² L'Eternel est ma force et le sujet de mes louanges; C'est lui qui m'a sauvé. Il est mon Dieu: je le célèbrerai; Il est le Dieu de mon père: je l'exalterai.

³ L'Eternel est un vaillant guerrier; L'Eternel est son nom.

⁴ Il a lancé dans la mer les chars de Pharaon et son armée; Ses combattants d'élite ont été engloutis dans la mer Rouge.

⁵ Les flots les ont couverts: Ils sont descendus au fond des eaux, comme une pierre.

⁶ Ta droite, ô Eternel! a signalé sa force; Ta droite, ô Eternel! a écrasé l'ennemi.

⁷ Par la grandeur de ta majesté Tu renverses tes adversaires; Tu déchaînes ta colère: Elle les consume comme du chaume.

⁸ Au souffle de tes narines, les eaux se sont amoncelées, Les courants se sont dressés comme une muraille, Les flots se sont durcis au milieu de la mer.

⁹ L'ennemi disait: Je poursuivrai, j'atteindrai, Je partagerai le butin; Ma vengeance sera assouvie, Je tirerai l'épée, ma main les détruira.

¹⁰ Tu as soufflé de ton haleine: La mer les a couverts; Ils se sont enfoncés comme du plomb, Dans la profondeur des eaux.

¹¹ Qui est comme toi parmi les dieux, ô Eternel? Qui est comme toi magnifique en sainteté, Digne de louanges, Opérant des prodiges?

¹² Tu as étendu ta droite: La terre les a engloutis.

¹³ Par ta miséricorde tu as conduit, Tu as délivré ce peuple; Par ta puissance tu le diriges Vers la demeure de ta sainteté.

¹⁴ Les peuples l'apprennent, et ils tremblent: La terreur s'empare des Philistins;

¹⁵ Les chefs d'Edom s'épouvantent; Un tremblement saisit les guerriers de Moab; Tous les habitants de Canaan tombent en défaillance.

¹⁶ La crainte et la frayeur les surprendront; Par la grandeur de ton bras Ils deviendront muets comme une pierre, Jusqu'à ce que ton peuple soit passé, ô Eternel! Jusqu'à ce qu'il soit passé, Le peuple que tu as acquis.

¹⁷ Tu les amèneras et tu les établiras sur la montagne de ton héritage, Au lieu que tu as préparé pour ta demeure, ô Eternel! Au sanctuaire, Seigneur! que tes mains ont fondé.

¹⁸ L'Eternel régnera éternellement et à toujours.

¹⁹ Car les chevaux de Pharaon, ses chars et ses cavaliers sont entrés dans la mer, Et l'Eternel a ramené sur eux les eaux de la mer; Mais les enfants d'Israël ont marché à sec au milieu de la mer.

²⁰ Marie, la prophétesse, soeur d'Aaron, prit à sa main un tambourin, et toutes les femmes vinrent après elle, avec des tambourins et en dansant.

²¹ Marie répondait aux enfants d'Israël: Chantez à l'Eternel, car il a fait éclater sa gloire; Il a précipité dans la mer le cheval et son cavalier.

²² Moïse fit partir Israël de la mer Rouge. Ils prirent la direction du désert de Schur; et, après trois journées de marche dans le désert, ils ne trouvèrent point d'eau.

²³ Ils arrivèrent à Mara; mais ils ne purent pas boire l'eau de Mara parce qu'elle était amère. C'est pourquoi ce lieu fut appelé Mara.

²⁴ Le peuple murmura contre Moïse, en disant: Que boirons-nous?

²⁵ Moïse cria à l'Eternel; et l'Eternel lui indiqua un bois, qu'il jeta dans l'eau. Et l'eau devint douce. Ce fut là que l'Eternel donna au peuple des lois et des ordonnances, et ce fut là qu'il le mit à l'épreuve.

²⁶ Il dit: Si tu écoutes attentivement la voix de l'Eternel, ton Dieu, si tu fais ce qui est droit à ses yeux, si tu prêtes l'oreille à ses commandements, et si tu observes toutes ses lois, je ne te frapperai d'aucune des maladies dont j'ai frappé les Egyptiens; car je suis l'Eternel, qui te guérit.

²⁷ Ils arrivèrent à Elim, où il y avait douze sources d'eau et soixante-dix palmiers. Ils campèrent là, près de l'eau.

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

² "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;

³ and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting."

⁴ Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

⁵ Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done."

⁶ Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

⁷ He put the coat on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with it.

⁸ He placed the breastplate on him; and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.

⁹ He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

¹⁰ Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.

¹¹ He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.

¹² He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

¹³ Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with coats, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

¹⁴ He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.

¹⁵ He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.

¹⁶ He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar.

¹⁷ But the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

¹⁸ He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

¹⁹ He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

²⁰ He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

²¹ He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

²² He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

²³ He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

²⁴ He brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

²⁵ He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh;

²⁶ and out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on the right thigh.

²⁷ He put all these in Aaron's hands and in his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

²⁸ Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

²⁹ Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

³⁰ Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

³¹ Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.'

³² What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire.

³³ You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.

³⁴ What has been done this day, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.

³⁵ You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh's command, that you don't die: for so I am commanded."

³⁶ Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.