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CHAPTER XVII. NOTICES OF EGYPT IN EXODUS AND NUMBERS. " The children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth." EXOD. xii. 37. *' It came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not [through] the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near But God led the people about [through] the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea And they tooK their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edga of the wilderness." EXOD. xiii 17-20. " Speak unto the children of ftrael, that they turn and encamp .
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before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalbefore it shall ye encamp by the sea." EXOD. xiv. 2. Zephon; " These are the journeys of Hie children of Israel, .which went f orlh out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord and these are their journeys according to their goings out. And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth. And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-Zephon and they And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, pitched before Migdol. and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the 'wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. And they removed from Mai ah, and came unto Elim And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea." :
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ALTHOUGH the geographical problems connected with Exodus
of the Israelites
the
from Egypt cannot be said to be
as
yet completely solved, yet the course of modern research has shed considerable light upon the route followed by tin; flying people, and the position of their various resting-place* The results arrived at may be regarded as tolerably assured, since they have not been reached without very searching criticism and the suggestion of many rival hypotheses. The boldest of these, started in the year 1874 by one of the first