Exodus 13:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And it cometh to pass in Pharaoh's sending the people away, that God hath not led them the way of the land of the Philistines, for it `is' near; for God said, `Lest the people repent in their seeing war, and have turned back towards Egypt;'

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  • Num 14:1-4 : 1 And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night; 2 and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, `O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died! 3 and why is Jehovah bringing us in unto this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our infants are become a prey; is it not good for us to turn back to Egypt?' 4 And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'
  • Deut 17:16 : 16 `Only, he doth not multiply to himself horses, nor cause the people to turn back to Egypt, so as to multiply horses, seeing Jehovah hath said to you, Ye do not add to turn back in this way any more.
  • Exod 14:11-12 : 11 And they say unto Moses, `Because there are no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in a wilderness? what is this thou hast done to us -- to bring us out from Egypt? 12 Is not this the word which we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Cease from us, and we serve the Egyptians; for better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in a wilderness?'
  • Neh 9:17 : 17 yea, they refuse to hearken, and have not remembered Thy wonders that Thou hast done with them, and harden their neck and appoint a head, to turn back to their service, in their rebellion; and Thou `art' a God of pardons, gracious, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and hast not forsaken them.
  • Luke 14:27-32 : 27 and whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple. 28 `For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expense, whether he have the things for completing? 29 lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him, 30 saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 31 `Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him? 32 and if not so -- he being yet a long way off -- having sent an embassy, he doth ask the things for peace.
  • Acts 7:39 : 39 to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
  • Acts 15:38 : 38 and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;
  • Deut 20:8 : 8 `And the authorities have added to speak unto the people, and said, Who `is' the man that is afraid and tender of heart? -- let him go and turn back to his house, and the heart of his brethren doth not melt like his heart;
  • Judg 7:3 : 3 and now, call, I pray thee, in the ears of the people, saying, Whoso `is' afraid and trembling, let him turn back and go early from mount Gilead;' and there turn back of the people twenty and two thousand, and ten thousand have been left.
  • 1 Kgs 8:47 : 47 and they have turned `it' back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee, in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely -- we have done wickedly;
  • Exod 16:2-3 : 2 And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; 3 and the sons of Israel say unto them, `Oh that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety -- for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.'

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    21And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the sea, and Jehovah causeth the sea to go on by a strong east wind all the night, and maketh the sea become dry ground, and the waters are cleaved,

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    23And the Egyptians pursue, and go in after them (all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen) unto the midst of the sea,

    24and it cometh to pass, in the morning watch, that Jehovah looketh unto the camp of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubleth the camp of the Egyptians,

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