Exodus 14:21

strong east wind.

It is thus distinctly stated that the agency by which the object was effected was natural. It is clear that Moses takes for granted that. strong east wind blowing through the night under given circumstances would make the passage quite possible.-- Canon Cook.. northeast wind, which would be called an "east wind" in Hebrew, would tend to drive the water out of the narrow bay toward the southwest, and if transpiring at the time of an ebb tide, might be strong enough to blow the channel dry. If there were shoals or flats at the place of crossing, as there now are near Suez, and deeper water to the north, as there now is,. pathway might thus be made across the gulf, leaving deep water above and below. It will be noticed that this was soon after the full moon of the vernal equinox, when there would be. very low ebb and. very high flood, and that the tide rises from seven to eight feet opposite Suez, and from eight to nine feet when aided by strong winds, returning with unusual power and suddenness after the ebb.-- Newhall. It was the Lord who divided the waters and made the sea bottom dry land, but the "strong east wind" was the agent he employed.