Exodus 3:1

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Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Egypt was the land where Israel had become enslaved, while Midian was the region east of the Gulf of Aqaba where Moses had fled and lived as a shepherd. Mount Horeb, also called Sinai, is the mountain where God appeared to Moses, beginning his call to deliver Israel from Egypt.

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Exodus 3:1 mentions Egypt, Midian and Mount Horeb.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato