Harnessed - More probably, “marshalled” or “in orderly array.” There is not the least indication that the Israelites had been disarmed by the Egyptians, and as occupying a frontier district frequently assailed by the nomads of the desert they would of necessity be accustomed to the use of arms. Compare Exodus 1:10.
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Exodus 13:18
18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessedc out of the land of Egypt.