Exodus 15:1-2

"Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto Jehovah, and spake saying, I will sing unto Jehovah for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. Jehovah is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him."

"Then sang Moses ..." The proper meaning of this is that Moses not only led the congregation of Israel in singing this praise unto Jehovah, but that he also composed the song.[9] The allegation that this hymn was composed at a time long after Moses and that it was merely an expansion of the very brief chorus ascribed to Miriam is merely a critical bias unsupported by any evidence whatever. "The narrative makes it quite clear that Miriam simply took the opening sentences of Moses' song and made them into a chant or response for the women to sing."[10] The dictum that Miriam's chorus was an earlier and original version of this song "is based solely on the dubious principle that `shorter is earlier,"'[11] another of the false rules of criticism.

"The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea ..." On the incomplete and uncertain determination by archeologists that the Egyptians had no cavalry, and that soldiers did not ride horseback, this is alleged by some to be an anachronism, despite the fact of its being vigorously disputed by eminent Egyptologists.[12] Rawlinson and other able scholars avoid such a conclusion by affirming that the true translation of the place is, "all the chariot horses."[13] Even as the text is given here, it has no mention of men RIDING horses. "It says no more than that the warrior mounted on the chariot, was, along with his vehicle, submerged in the depths."[14]

"He hath triumphed gloriously ..." An alternate rendition of this is, "He is gloriously glorified."[15]

"My father's God ..." The singular here for "father" makes this a reference to the patriarch Abraham, or as Keil suggested, "a reference to all three of the great patriarch's Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as in Exodus 3:6."[16]