After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.’

go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.

So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Then he sent his brothers away, and as they were leaving he said to them, ‘Don’t quarrel on the way!’

As I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath’ (that is, Bethlehem).

And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.

At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him.

Moses told his father-in-law about everything the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake and about all the hardships they had met along the way and how the Lord had saved them.

Teach them his decrees and instructions, and show them the way they are to live and how they are to behave.

God’s angel to prepare the way

‘See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

At these two corners they must be double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both shall be like that.

Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings

Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.’

At these two corners the frames were double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both were made alike.

So the Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way they camped under their standards, and that is the way they set out, each of them with their clan and family.

Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah.

The bronze snake

They travelled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go round Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;

‘But we have overthrown them; Heshbon’s dominion has been destroyed all the way to Dibon. We have demolished them as far as Nophah, which extends to Medeba.’

and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.’

who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

The Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you; they chased you like a swarm of bees and beat you down from Seir all the way to Hormah.

What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him?

Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.