Add parallel Print Page Options

Remembering Israel’s Wanderings

“Then we turned around and headed back across the wilderness toward the Red Sea,[a] just as the Lord had instructed me, and we wandered around in the region of Mount Seir for a long time.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2:1 Hebrew sea of reeds.

40 As for you, turn around now and go on back through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.[a]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1:40 Hebrew sea of reeds.

The Bronze Snake

Then the people of Israel set out from Mount Hor, taking the road to the Red Sea[a] to go around the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient with the long journey,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 21:4 Hebrew sea of reeds.

25 Now turn around, and don’t go on toward the land where the Amalekites and Canaanites live. Tomorrow you must set out for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.[a]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 14:25 Hebrew sea of reeds.

18 “Finally, they went around Edom and Moab through the wilderness. They traveled along Moab’s eastern border and camped on the other side of the Arnon River. But they never once crossed the Arnon River into Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

Read full chapter

Normally it takes only eleven days to travel from Mount Sinai[a] to Kadesh-barnea, going by way of Mount Seir.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1:2 Hebrew Horeb, another name for Sinai; also in 1:6, 19.

Bible Gateway Recommends