Explore the Bible Associate professor of marriage and family counseling, University of Mobile PERSEVERING FAITH Exodus 13:17–18; 14:9–18, 31 Freedom and Hardship (13:17–18) Once the Israelites were freed from Egypt, they took the long way to Canaan rather than the shortest route that would have taken them along the north edge of the Suez isthmus. The short route was through…