Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’

The Wilderness Years

“Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the Lord told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir.

the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day,

he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.

then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,

the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;

The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’

“‘Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?

They shall call peoples to their mountain; there they offer right sacrifices; for they draw from the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”

all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,