So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

And it came to pass on the way, at the encampment, that the Lord met him and sought to kill him.

The Wilderness Way

Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.”

So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.

And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.

And 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 come upon them on the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.

And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own land.

If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry;

The Angel and the Promises

“Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”