出埃及记 13:17

法老容百姓去的时候，非利士地的道路虽近， 神却不领他们从那里走；因为 神说：「恐怕百姓遇见打仗后悔，就回埃及去。」

¶ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: