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After the Israelites escaped Egypt through the Wadi Tumilat, they did something hard to fathom.\u00a0 Instead of making a clean break down the west coast of the Sinai as they had intended, they turn northward.\u00a0 They made their way towards the Way of Horus, the military road that runs along the north Sinai.\u00a0 After that,…<\/p>\n

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