Everything about The Song Of The Sea totally explained
The
Song of the Sea also known as
Az Yashir Moshe is a
poem which appears in
Exodus at Exodus 15:1b-18. The text describes the destruction of the Egyptian army at the Red Sea, and the future conquest of Canaan by the Israelites. It is a Jewish prayer. It is recited daily in the morning
shacharit services.
Origin
The origin of this prayer comes from the text in
Parshat Beshalach.
Az Yashir Moshe is the song that the
Israelites sang after they crossed the
Red Sea safely. The original text is written in
Exodus 15:1-18. It is one of only two sections of the
Sefer Torah that's written with a different layout to the normal simple columns, as can be seen in the picture. The alternating words are supposed to represent bricks in a wall, as a representation of the walls of water on either side of the path through the sea. (The other section written differently is Moses' song at the end of the Sefer Torah in Ha'azinu.)
Meaning
This is a song of praise to
God. It deals with his power. It also praises God for the miracle he's just performed for them.
Translation
Some of the prayer means this:
» This song was sung by
Moshe and the
Children of Israel this song to God. And it said: "I will sing to God, for highly exalted. The horse and his rider have drowned in the sea. God is my song, and strength, And He is my salvation; This is my God and I'll glorify him, my father's God and I'll exalt him.
Non-traditional interpretations
According to the
documentary hypothesis, it's a once independent text that was embedded into the
Jahwist source, and thus into the
Torah. The date of the text is uncertain, and it may in fact be an original source for the more verbose tale that appears elsewhere in the text. The text also appears to have been included in the
Elohist source, although after these texts were redacted together, only the first two lines of the Elohist copy remain, immediately after the lines from the Jahwist copy, the duplication being unnecessary.
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