After striking Egypt with ten devastating plagues, Jehovah led his people, not on the shortest route toward the Promised Land, but down to the Red Sea, where they could easily be cornered and attacked.
یَهُوَه پس از نازل کردن ده بلا بر مصریان امّت خود را به سوی سرزمین موعود راهی کرد .‏