7. “Only unraised bread is to be eaten for seven days. There is not to be a trace of anything fermented—no yeast anywhere.
8. “Tell your child on that day: ‘This is because of what God did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
17. It so happened that after Pharaoh released the people, God didn’t lead them by the road through the land of the Philistines, which was the shortest route, for God thought, “If the people encounter war, they’ll change their minds and go back to Egypt.”
18. So God led the people on the wilderness road, looping around to the Red Sea. The Israelites left Egypt in military formation.