The three days’ journey marks the boundary between Egypt and the Sea, between the land of bondage and the hope of freedom on the way to the land of promise. Indeed Pharaoh himself recognized that the journey of three days was calculated to enable the people to be free, for the three days’ journey would remove Israel from the jurisdiction of Egypt (cf. Exod 8:21–24). In the symbolic world of the Old Testament, Egypt represents the land of the graves and death. By making a three days’ journey, Israel