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18 Instead, he led them in a roundabout way through the desert toward the Red Sea.[a] The Israelites were armed for battle.

19 (A)Moses took the body of Joseph with him, as Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly promise to do. Joseph had said, “When God rescues you, you must carry my body with you from this place.”

20 The Israelites left Sukkoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the desert.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 13:18 (in Hebrew literally “Sea of Reeds”) evidently referred to (1) a series of lakes and marshes between the head of the Gulf of Suez and the Mediterranean, the region generally regarded as the site of the events described in Exodus 13, and was also used to designate (2) the Gulf of Suez, and (3) the Gulf of Aqaba.

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