| GOSHEN | Israelites' home, in Genesis |
| EDEN | Serpent's home in Genesis |
| TABERNACLE | The portable sanctuary in the form of a tent in which the ancient Israelites carried the Ark of the Covenant in the Old Testament |
| MANNA | Food in the Old Testament that sustained the Israelites in the wilderness (5) |
| JOSHUA | In the Old Testament, Moses' successor who led the Israelites in the conquest of Canaan |
| SINAI | Peninsula crossed by the Israelites in Exodus |
| REDSEA | What the Israelites crossed, in the Bible |
| EXODUS | Which Old Testament book recounts the escape of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt? (6) |
| NUMBERS | OT book about the wandering of the Israelites in Sinai |
| MICAH | Book in which the Israelites are rebuked for idolatry |
| DEKKER | Desmond -- and the Aces, Jamaican group with the hit 'Israelites' in 1969 (6) |
| AARON | In the Old Testament, the first high priest of the Israelites, brother of Moses (5) |
| SHITTIM | In the Old Testament, the site where the Israelites encamped before crossing the Jordan (7) |
| SAULIE | I'm hired to greet leader of Israelites, one ending in suicide |
| HEBRAIC | Goddess in charge inspires book relating to Israelites (7) |
| EHUD | In the Old Testament, a judge who was sent by God to deliver the Israelites from Moabite domination |
| BALAAM | In the Old Testament, a diviner who, when summoned to curse the Israelites, prophesied future glories for them instead |
| DESMOND | --- Dekker, reggae star who topped the charts with Israelites in 1968 |
| RAMESES | Aries points repeatedly to Egyptian pharaoh who held the Israelites in thrall (7) |
| GIDEON | Hebrew judge in the Old Testament who led the Israelites to victory over the Midianites (6) |
