Yet all of this information, interesting though it is, gives us no more specific a location than Exodus does. 3 The best clue we have to the route of Israel’s exodus from Egypt has to do finally not with its location, but with its purpose. The route from the Egyptian Delta to the border of the wilderness was plain enough to the editor who brought together Exod 13:17–18, 20–22; and 14:1–2. That editor included precise details of location because they made his point more clearly, just as the redactor