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An empty coastal road runs beside cultivated land toward the distant sea.
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Exodus 13:17

The Nearer Way Is Avoided

Consecrate every firstborn · Exodus 13

Story guide: God avoids the nearer Philistine route so that war will not turn the people back toward Egypt.

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17When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, though it was near; for God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.”

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