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.)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 13:17 Or, because.
  2. Exodus 13:17 Which the Philistines would have made against them by stopping them the passage.
  3. Exodus 13:18 That is, not privily, but openly and as the word doth signify, set in order by five and five.

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