then turned east and camped along the western edge of the Sinai Desert.
On the fifteenth day of the second month after the Israelites had escaped from Egypt, they left Elim and started through the western edge of the Sinai Desert in the direction of Mount Sinai.
They left Elim and camped near the Red Sea,
From there they went to Dophkah, Alush, and Rephidim, where they had no water.