Quotes about Departure

On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,

You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

Early the next morning Joshua got up and left Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.

So Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.

“Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.

So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, tranquil and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. And they were far away from the Sidonians and had no alliance with anyone.

So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.

Putting their small children, their livestock, and their possessions in front of them, they turned and departed.

So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.

But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,

her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.