Now from the ridge where we had halted we saw it encamped beneath us, a very great army.

Moreover, stragglers told us that beyond, also encamped, was the countless horde of the Israelites, and beyond these the vast Sea of Reeds which barred their path.

But we could not see them for a very strange reason.

Between these and the army of Pharaoh rose a black wall of cloud, built as it were from earth to heaven.

One of those stragglers of whom I have spoken, told us that this cloud travelled before the Israelites by day, but at night was turned into a pillar of fire.