7. A cloud appeared, casting its shadow over their camp. Dry land appeared where before there had been only water. It presented them an open path through the Red Sea, a grassy plain where before there had been only violent surf.
8. Those who were protected by your hand passed through as a single nation, seeing amazing wonders.
9. They were like horses ranging about and like lambs skipping along. They praised you, Lord, for you were rescuing them.
10. They remembered all that had happened in the foreign land in which they had lived so long. They remembered how the ground had brought forth insects instead of livestock. They remembered how the river had vomited up frogs instead of its normal wildlife.
11. Later, driven by hunger, they requested meat and found a new breed of bird.
12. Quail arose from the sea to nourish them.
13. In contrast, punishments rained down upon the sinners, but not before they were given a clear warning through violent thunder. It was right for them to suffer for their evil deeds and for their hatred of the immigrants in their midst.
14. Some people have failed to welcome strangers who came into their midst to stay awhile. But these people went so far as to make slaves of people who were their guests and benefactors.