¹⁷ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

⁸ And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.