When they reached a Mount Sinai, in present day Egypt, God spoke to Moses high on the mountain slopes and made a deal (called a covenant) with the Jews that renewed the one he had made with Abraham.

Eventually he reached a well in the Midian (a region near the Gulf of Aqaba), ... Moses then led his people into the Sinai on the way to the Promised Land. Courtesy National Geographic Books.

Numbers 31 described Moses’ followers fighting the people of Midian. “They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man,” the passage reads.