Thematic Bible: By a circuitous route

And it shall be in Pharaoh's sending forth the people, and God directed not the way of the land of the Philistines, for it is near; for God said, Lest the people shall grieve in their seeing war, and they turn back to Egypt And God will turn the people about the way of the desert, the sea of sedge: and the sons of Israel went up active out of the land of Egypt