18 So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. [1] The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle.

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[1] 5:1 Another textual tradition "we" [2] 5:3 "Gibeath Haaraloth" means "the hill of foreskins." [3] 5:9 "Gilgal" sounds like the Hebrew for "roll." ...

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The journey from crossing the Red Sea to The Promised Land should have taken the Israelites 40 days. Instead ... I desperately don’t want to die there! My Bible’s commentary says that in the ...

Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I ...

The Bible states that the Israelites reached the Promised Land ... said to have arrived after the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness- the rest were fashioned over the next 900 years.