“The Song of Miriam”
“Miriam, the prophetess and sister of Aaron, leads the women with tambourines and dancing. She echoes the refrain: “Sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.”


(It reads in Exodus 15:19–21) Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots and his soldiers went into the sea. Then the Lord made the waters of the sea come back over them. But the Israelites walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground.’ Then Miriam, Aaron’s sister, who was a prophet, took a tambourine in her hand. All the other women followed her, with tambourines in their hands. They danced while Miriam sang to them. This is the song that she sang: ‘Sing to the Lord, because he has shown his great power. He threw horses and their riders into the sea.’