Exodus 13:17-22
1599 Geneva Bible
17 ¶ Now when Pharaoh had let the people go, God carried them not by the way of the Philistines’ country, [a]though it were nearer: (for God said, Lest the people repent when they [b]see war, and turn again to Egypt).
18 But God made the people to go about by the way of the wilderness of the red sea: and the children of Israel went up [c]armed out of the land of Egypt.
19 (And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, (A)God will surely visit you, and ye shall take my bones away hence with you.)
20 ¶ (B)So they took their journey from Succoth, and camped in Etham in the edge of the wilderness.
21 (C)And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a [d]cloud to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might go both by day and by night.
22 (D)He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.
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- Exodus 13:17 Or, because.
- Exodus 13:17 Which the Philistines would have made against them by stopping them the passage.
- Exodus 13:18 That is, not privily, but openly and as the word doth signify, set in order by five and five.
- Exodus 13:21 To defend them from the heat of the sun.
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