It takes eleven days to travel from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea via Mount Seir.

The Amorites who lived in the hill country came out to engage you in battle. They pursued you like bees do and crushed you from Seir to Hormah.

Israel Passes through Edomite Territory

“We turned and set out for the desert on the road to the Reed Sea, just as the Lord had directed me. We traveled around Mount Seir for many days.

and command this people, “You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives, the descendants of Esau who live around Seir. They will be afraid of you so be very careful.

Don’t fight them, because I won’t give you any part of their land, not even the size of a footprint. I have given Mount Seir to Esau as their property.

So we bypassed our relatives, the descendants of Esau who live in Seir. We turned through the Arabah desert from Elath, and from Ezion-geber we traveled the desert road to Moab.”

The Horites used to live in Seir before the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, exterminated them, and settled there instead, just as Israel will do in the land of its possession, which the Lord gave them.)

This is what he did for the descendants of Esau who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them. So they dispossessed them and settled there in their place, where they live to this day.

as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir did for me, as did the Moabites who live in Ar. I’ll pass through, until I will have crossed the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is about to give us.’

He said: “The Lord came from Sinai. Rising from Seir upon us, he shone forth from Mount Paran, accompanied by a myriad of his holy ones, with flaming fire from his right hand for them.