a. Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD: This remarkable song is assumed to have come spontaneously as Moses led the nation into the wilderness on the other side of the Red Sea. They sang this song when their salvation was real to them. They sang it when the power and the presence of God were real to them. i. God prizes these spontaneous expressions of praise and worship. This was a new song sung unto the LORD (as in Psalm
Exodus 15:1–5