¹⁸ But God took the people round by the waste land near the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up in fighting order out of the land of Egypt.

² Give orders to the children of Israel to go back and put up their tents before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon, opposite to which you are to put up your tents by the sea.

⁶ And they went on from Succoth and put up their tents in Etham on the edge of the waste land.

⁷ And from Etham, turning back to Pi-hahiroth which is before Baal-zephon, they put up their tents before Migdol.

⁸ And journeying on from before Hahiroth, they went through the sea into the waste land: they went three days' journey through the waste land of Etham and put up their tents in Marah.

¹⁰ He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

⁵¹ And on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

¹⁴ Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle will be kept here in the land which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan; but you, the fighting-men, are to go over before your brothers, armed, to give them help;

⁷ Guiding them in the right way, so that they might come into the town of their resting-place.