Today we begin Exodus Chapter 14. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon. Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering […]

“By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the […]

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the people of Isra’el swear an oath when he said, “God will certainly remember you; and you are to carry my bones up with you, away from here.”-Exodus 13:19 We are told the Israelites took Joseph’s mummified body with them when they left […]

“God led the people by a roundabout route, through the desert towards the Red Sea. “-Exodus 13:18 Verse 18 brings us face-to-face with a hot controversy concerning the actual Exodus route the Hebrews took when hightailing it out of Egypt. As I went over in my last post, God specifically commanded the Israelites to NOT take the […]

When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out […]