1. Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2. “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea.
3. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.’
4. Then I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, so that he will pursue them; and I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.
5. Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people; and they said, “Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
6. So he made ready his chariot and took his people with him.
7. Also, he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt with captains over every one of them.