Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey,<n id="1" /> while<n id="2" /> Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban&#8217;s flocks.p>

So he took his relatives<n id="1" /> with him and pursued Jacob<n id="2" /> for seven days.<n id="3" /> He caught up with<n id="4" /> him in the hill country of Gilead.

Let us go up at once<n id="1" /> to Bethel. Then I will make<n id="2" /> an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress<n id="3" /> and has been with me wherever I went.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

He asked the men who were there,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Where is the cult prostitute<n id="2" /> who was at Enaim by the road?&#8221; But they replied, &#8220;There has been no cult prostitute here.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then Joseph gave orders to fill<n id="1" /> their bags with grain, to return each man&#8217;s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">So the sons of Israel did as he said.<n id="1" /> Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed,<n id="2" /> and he gave them provisions for the journey.

To his father he sent the following:<n id="1" /> ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father&#8217;s journey.

<p class="poetry">May Dan be a snake beside the road,p> <p class="poetry">a viper by the path,p> <p class="poetry">that bites the heels of the horsep> <p class="poetry">so that its rider falls backward.<n id="1" />p>

So God brought the people around by the way of the desert to the Red Sea,<n id="1" /> and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle.<n id="2" />p>

Now the <sc>Lordsc> was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light,<n id="1" /> so that they could<n id="2" /> travel day or night.<n id="3" />

warn<n id="1" /> them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk<n id="2" /> and the work they must do.<n id="3" />

Go up<n id="1" /> to a land flowing with milk and honey. But<n id="2" /> I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you<n id="3" /> on the way.&#8221;p>

I will send the wild animals<n id="1" /> against you and they will bereave you of your children,<n id="2" /> annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population<n id="3" /> so that your roads will become deserted.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When the Canaanite king of Arad<n id="2" /> who lived in the Negev<n id="3" /> heard that Israel was approaching along the road to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoner.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Let us<n id="1" /> pass through your land;<n id="2" /> we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King&#8217;s Highway until we pass your borders.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then they turned and went up by the road to Bashan. And King Og of Bashan and all his forces<n id="1" /> marched out against them to do battle at Edrei.

<p class="bodytext">Then the angel of the <sc>Lordsc> went farther, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.

Then the <sc>Lordsc> opened Balaam&#8217;s eyes, and he saw the angel of the <sc>Lordsc> standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; so he bowed his head and threw himself down with his face to the ground.<n id="1" />

They traveled from Pi-hahiroth,<n id="1" /> and passed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days&#8217; journey in the wilderness of Etham, and camped in Marah.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then we turned and set out toward the desert land on the way to the Red Sea<n id="1" /> just as the <sc>Lordsc> told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.