But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea upon dry land: and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand and on the left.
Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert. The pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.
Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein you should pitch your tents: in the night shewing you the way by fire, and in the day by the pillar of a cloud.
And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness. And having marched three days through the desert of Etham, they camped in Mara.
And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O Lord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud protecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night,)
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith, which he had, being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised, that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:
And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you, (and have been hindered hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.