Exodus 13:17-22

21st Century King James Version

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.”

¹⁸ But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up by five in a rank out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had strictly sworn the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.”

²⁰ And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

²¹ And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, to go by day and night.

²² He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.