Keep in mind that in my attempt to deify Moses' rod, I'm making it the avatar of the Lord, the vessel in which the Lord resides. So it's not that ironic that the verse I gave, and the one you gave, segue pretty nicely in my rendition:
And you [Moses]---- lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and split it, so that the Children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground. . . 21 So Moses stretched out his hand [with the staff in it] over the sea such that the Lord [in Moses' hand] led the sea with the strong east wind all night, and He made the sea into dry land and the waters split.
We could almost imaging reading that in the middle of the night Moses arm grew weak so he let the Lord down. And the sea began to return to its original place until Hur and Aaron ran up and grabbed Moses hand (the one with the Lord in it), his right hand, and lifted it back up toward heaven so that the sea continued to split wherefore Amalek . . . I mean Egypt . . . was up ****z creek, or sea, as it were, without a lordly paddle or staff.
John