Exodus 15:4-6

"Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea; And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea. The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone. Thy right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power, Thy right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth in pieces the enemy."

"Chosen captains are sunk ..." This is also rendered submerged, the waters being called "the deeps" in the next verse. Dobson says that the word here "is the same word used in the Canaanite language to refer to the deep sea."[20] The New English Bible renders it "abyss," but we believe that is incorrect. The fact that abyss, Scripturally, usually refers to the abode of Satan and evil spirits makes its use here inappropriate. Some of the NEB translators very likely favored that rendition for the sake of supporting the notion of a mythological basis for this account. Fields very adequately refuted that false interpretation.[21]

Adam Clarke pointed out that if Moses and the Israelites had been motivated by the same lust for power and loot that moved Pharaoh's host into the Red Sea, they might very easily have, "gratified themselves by returning and over-running and subjugating all of Egypt,"[22] due to the destruction of the whole military power of Egypt in the Red Sea.

"Down into the depths like a stone ..."; Exodus 15:10 has, "They sank as lead in the mighty waters." The Hebrew word here means, "Literally, went gurgling down!"[23] There is utterly no way to harmonize such statements with the notion that this destruction was nothing more than the bogging down of Pharaoh's chariots in some swampy land. Of course, the heavy armor which men of that era wore into battle would make their sinking in such waters a certainty.