¹⁸ And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁷ It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"