Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me—so that I might have sent you away with gladness and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre—

Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to Yahweh and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for He is highly exalted; The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.

Yah is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will extol Him.

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing to it!

“So now, write this song for yourselves and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.

Then it will be, when many evils and troubles have found them, that this song will answer them as a witness (for it shall not be forgotten from the mouths of their seed); for I know their intent which they are developing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”

So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the sons of Israel.

Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were complete:

Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.