But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it,.... Even the same rod with which so many wonders had been done in Egypt; and Artapanus, the Heathen, says (x), that Moses being bid by a divine voice to smite the sea with his rod, he hearkened to it, and touched the water with it, and so it divided, as it is said it did, Exo 14:21. and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea; and so they did, Exo 14:22. (x) Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 27. p. 436.