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Connecting Statement:
In these verses, the Levites continue to praise Yahweh in the presence of the people of Israel.
you divided the sea
God divided
you ... threw those who pursued them into the depths, as a stone into deep waters
In this simile, the writer describes God throwing the Egyptians into the sea as easily as a person would throw a stone into water, and the stone would disappear under the water completely. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)