Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
⛓ Read Exodus 15 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Explicit naming: 'the song of Moses' = the Song of the Sea (Exod 15:1-18), sung after Israel passed through the sea and Egypt's army drowned. The victors standing by the 'sea of glass' having overcome the beast re-enact the exodus deliverance. Strongest anchor; satisfies recurrence, thematic coherence, and historical availability decisively.
High confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The Song of the Sea celebrates that horse and rider were thrown into the sea. The drowning of Legion's host (v.13) resonates with this triumph-song over a defeated army cast into the waters, supporting the new-Exodus reading; faint and thematic, dependent on the Exodus 14 figural link.
Low confidence