17 And it came about at the time of Pharʹaoh’s sending the people away that God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Phi·lisʹtines just because it was near, for God said: “It might be the people will feel regret when they see war and will certainly return to Egypt.”+

22 Later Moses caused Israel to depart from the Red Sea and they went out to the wilderness of Shur+ and marched on for three days in the wilderness, but they did not find water.+