He drove out the humans, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.

And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him, and they set him on the way with his wife and all that he had.

The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

and said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the way to the house of my master’s kin.”

“I came today to the spring and said, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if now you will only make successful the way I am going!

And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household gods.

And Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem,

When his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying, “This is the way your servant treated me,” he became enraged.

Then he sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving he said to them, “Do not quarrel along the way.”

Jacob Settles in Goshen

Israel sent Judah ahead to Joseph to lead the way before him into Goshen. When they came to the land of Goshen,

For when I came from Paddan, Rachel, alas, died in the land of Canaan on the way, while there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.”

On the way, at a place where they spent the night, the Lord met him and tried to kill him.

The Lord went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light, so that they might travel by day and by night.

Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had found them on the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.

Teach them the statutes and instructions and make known to them the way they are to go and the things they are to do.

The Conquest of Canaan Promised

“I am going to send an angel in front of you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.

they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up among you, or I would consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”

And now, therefore, let the power of the Lord be great in the way that you promised when you spoke, saying,

Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

The Bronze Serpent

When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.

From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became discouraged on the way.

(By the way of Mount Seir it takes eleven days to reach Kadesh-barnea from Horeb.)