Exodus 13:17-21 Now when Pharao sent away the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, because it was near. For God said, Perhaps the people will repent when they see war and will return to Egypt:

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ Now when Pharao sent away the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, because it was near. For God said, Perhaps the people will repent when they see war and will return to Egypt: ¹⁸ therefore God led the people by a circuitous march to the wilderness; to the Red sea. And in the fifth generation the Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁹ And Moses took with him the bones of Joseph. For with an oath he had adjured the Israelites saying, The Lord will assuredly visit you and you shall carry hence my bones with you. ²⁰ And the children of Israel removed from Succoth and encamped at Otham on the edge of the wilderness. ²¹ And God went before them, by day in a pillar of a cloud to shew them the way, and at night in a pillar of fire.