Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind, turning it into dry land. The waters were divided. Moses stretches the staff; God sends the wind. The divine and the human are both present in the act, as they have been throughout the plague sequence. The east wind — the same instrument of the locust plague, now deployed for Israel's salvation — blows all night. The timing is significant: the crossing is not instantaneous but the product of a night-long divine act, completed by dawn. The waters divided — a phrase that Genesis 1:6 established as a divine act of creation. The crossing of the sea is cosmologically significant: God is creating a new world for His people to walk through. Psalm 74:13 says you divided the sea by your power — Israel's poets will rehearse this act as the defining demonstration of God's creative authority.

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