⁷ Resume your journey, and go into the hill country of the Amorites as well as into the neighboring regions—the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb,^[a] and the seacoast—the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.

Israel’s Refusal to Enter the Land

¹⁹ “Then, just as the Lord our God had ordered us, we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, until we reached Kadesh-barnea.^(A)

²⁰ I said to you, ‘You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.