And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Ver. 3. Three days' journey,] viz., to mount Horeb. They made it three months' journey ere they came there. Exo 13:17-18 God leads his people oft not the nearest, but the safest way to their journey's end.