Shemot 15:1-2, 11
The Song at the Sea
Safe on the far shore, Israel sings the Torah’s first song and vows to glorify God: “This is my God, and I will beautify Him.”
For children, teens and adults
They have just walked through the sea and come out the other side. Egypt is finished; the chariots are gone. And the Torah does something it has not done once in all of Bereshit or through the plagues: it stops the story and gives you a song. Not a speech, not a korban, but a song, sung by everyone at once, the first shirah in the Torah. What follows is what people say when ordinary words have run out.
אָז יָשִׁיר־מֹשֶׁה וּבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת־הַשִּׁירָה הַזֹּאת לַה׳ וַיֹּאמְרוּ לֵאמֹר אָשִׁירָה לַה׳ כִּי־גָאֹה גָּאָה סוּס וְרֹכְבוֹ רָמָה בַיָּם׃
Shemot 15:1
Az yashir Moshe uvnei Yisrael et hashirah hazot la-Adonai, vayomru lemor: Ashirah la-Adonai ki ga'oh ga'ah, sus v'rochvo ramah vayam.
Then Moshe and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and they said: I will sing to the Lord, for He has risen high above all; horse and rider He hurled into the sea.