Exodus 15:5
What does Exodus 15:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Exodus 15:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862The depths do cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 14:28
And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one of them.
- Jeremiah 51:63
And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:
- Ezekiel 27:34
In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.
- Exodus 15:10
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters.
- Matthew 18:6
but whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.
- Revelation 18:21
And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.
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