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With dawn's first light, they find that the sea. So recently, a cauldron now lies perfectly calm. Only moments before, the waters had churned, winds and waves, Israelites and Egyptians, children and chariots. On the Eastern Shore, 3,000,000 Hebrews scan the horizon for their pursuers. There are none. A few pack animals paw at the ground, and a couple of toddlers stir, but for the most part, a stunned silence has fallen over the crowd. What they had just witnessed strains the limits of their thinking.