They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert.

At the risk ¹  of our lives ²  we get our food ³  because robbers lurk ⁴  in the countryside. ⁵ 

“‘So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them to the wilderness.

They traveled from Succoth, and camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the desert.

and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert. ¹ 

You and my brother Benjamin can certainly see with your own eyes that I really am the one who speaks to you. ¹ 

Pharaoh will think ¹  regarding the Israelites, ‘They are wandering around confused ²  in the land – the desert has closed in on them.’ ³ 

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) ¹  Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

Why ¹  have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that ²  we and our cattle should die here?

They took all the Amorite territory from the Arnon River on the south to the Jabbok River on the north, from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west. ¹ 

The king said, “Bring to me whoever speaks to you, and he won’t bother you again!”

Look, I will be waiting at the fords of the desert until word from you ¹  reaches me.”

For this reason my people will know my name, for this reason they will know ¹  at that time ²  that I am the one who says, ‘Here I am.’”

I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desert and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins. The Lord had brought this all about because of his blazing anger. ¹ 

However, in the future I will allure her; ¹  I will lead ²  her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

So God brought the people around by the way of the desert to the Red Sea, ¹  and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle. ² 

As Aaron spoke ¹  to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the desert, there the glory of the Lord ²  appeared ³  in the cloud,

When ¹  the layer of dew had evaporated, ²  there on the surface of the desert was a thin flaky substance, ³  thin like frost on the earth.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ ¹  sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camping by ²  the mountain of God. ³