Deuteronomy 1:40-42

Darby Translation

⁴⁰ But ye, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

⁴¹ —And ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God hath commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and ye would go presumptuously up the hill.

⁴² And Jehovah said to me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.