Exodus 13:17

In Exodus 13 of Exodus.

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:

The King James Version (1769) is in the public domain in the United States.