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Deuteronomy 1:2

(It takes eleven days to travel from Mount Sinai to Kadesh Barnea by way of the hill country of Edom.)

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Horeb;   Seir;   Sinai;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Mountains;   Seir, Mount;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Law of Moses, the;   Travellers;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Blessing;   Deuteronomy;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Legalism;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Generation;   Moses;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Day's Journey;   Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Wanderings in the Wilderness;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Horeb ;   Kadesh, Kadeshbarnea ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Horeb;   Kadesh;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Kadesh-Barnea;   Pentateuch, the Samaritan;   Sinai;   Wanderings of Israel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Edox, Idumea;   Heresy and Heretics;   Kadesh;   Moses;   Seir;   Sinai, Mount;   Wilderness, Wanderings in the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
It is eleven days' [journey] from Horev by the way of Mount Se`ir to Kadesh-Barnea.
King James Version
(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
Lexham English Bible
It is a journey of eleven days from Herob by the way of Mount Seir up to Kadesh Barnea.
English Standard Version
It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
New Century Version
(The trip from Mount Sinai to Kadesh Barnea on the Mount Seir road takes eleven days.)
New English Translation
Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.
Amplified Bible
It is [only] eleven days' journey from Horeb (Mount Sinai) by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea [on Canaan's border; yet Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years before crossing the border and entering Canaan, the promised land].
New American Standard Bible
It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
Geneva Bible (1587)
There are eleuen dayes iourney from Horeb vnto Kadesh-barnea, by the way of mout Seir.
Legacy Standard Bible
It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
Complete Jewish Bible
It is eleven days' journey from Horev to Kadesh-Barnea by way of Mount Se‘ir.
Darby Translation
There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
Easy-to-Read Version
The trip from Mount Horeb through the mountains of Seir to Kadesh Barnea takes only eleven days.
George Lamsa Translation
(There are eleven days journey from Horeb to mount Seir to Rakim-gia.)
Christian Standard Bible®
It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.
Literal Translation
eleven days from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
eleuen daies iourney from Horeb, by the waye of mount Seir vnto Cades Bernea.
American Standard Version
It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.
Bible in Basic English
It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
There are eleuen dayes iourney from Horeb, by the way of mount Seir, vnto Cades Barnea.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
It is eleven days journey from Horeb unto Kadesh-barnea by the way of mount Seir.
King James Version (1611)
(There are eleuen daies iourney from Horeb, by the way of mount Seir, vnto Kadesh Barnea.)
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It is a journey of eleven days from Choreb to mount Seir as far as Cades Barne.
English Revised Version
It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.
Berean Standard Bible
It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
by enleuene daies fro Oreb bi the weie of the hil of Seir, til to Cades Barne.
Young's Literal Translation
eleven days' from Horeb, the way of mount Seir, unto Kadesh-Barnea.
Update Bible Version
It is eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
Webster's Bible Translation
([There are] eleven days [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.)
World English Bible
It is eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
New King James Version
It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
New Living Translation
Normally it takes only eleven days to travel from Mount Sinai to Kadesh-barnea, going by way of Mount Seir.
New Life Bible
It takes eleven days to travel from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
New Revised Standard
(By the way of Mount Seir it takes eleven days to reach Kadesh-barnea from Horeb.)
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
eleven days from Horeb, by way of Mount Seir, as far as Kadesh-barnea.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Cadesbarne.
Revised Standard Version
It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Se'ir to Ka'desh-bar'nea.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.

Contextual Overview

1 In this book are the words that Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were in the Jordan Valley near Suph, between the town of Paran on one side and the towns of Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other. 2 (It takes eleven days to travel from Mount Sinai to Kadesh Barnea by way of the hill country of Edom.) 3 On the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year after they had left Egypt, Moses told the people everything the Lord had commanded him to tell them. 4 This was after the Lord had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in the town of Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who ruled in the towns of Ashtaroth and Edrei. 5 It was while the people were east of the Jordan in the territory of Moab that Moses began to explain God's laws and teachings. He said, 6 "When we were at Mount Sinai, the Lord our God said to us, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 7 Break camp and move on. Go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the surrounding regions—to the Jordan Valley, to the hill country and the lowlands, to the southern region, and to the Mediterranean coast. Go to the land of Canaan and on beyond the Lebanon Mountains as far as the great Euphrates River. 8 All of this is the land which I, the Lord , promised to give to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants. Go and occupy it.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

by the way: Deuteronomy 1:44, Deuteronomy 2:4, Deuteronomy 2:8, Numbers 20:17-21

unto: Leviticus 2:14, Leviticus 9:23, Numbers 13:26, Numbers 32:8, Joshua 14:6

Reciprocal: Numbers 33:2 - journeys Deuteronomy 1:19 - we came Deuteronomy 2:1 - we compassed Deuteronomy 2:14 - Kadeshbarnea Deuteronomy 11:29 - General 1 Chronicles 4:42 - mount Seir

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
So the earth produced all kinds of plants, and God was pleased with what he saw.
Genesis 1:14
Then God commanded, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin;
Job 26:7
God stretched out the northern sky and hung the earth in empty space.
Job 26:14
But these are only hints of his power, only the whispers that we have heard. Who can know how truly great God is?
Psalms 33:6
The Lord created the heavens by his command, the sun, moon, and stars by his spoken word.
Isaiah 45:18
The Lord created the heavens— he is the one who is God! He formed and made the earth— he made it firm and lasting. He did not make it a desolate waste, but a place for people to live. It is he who says, "I am the Lord , and there is no other god.
Nahum 2:10
Nineveh is destroyed, deserted, desolate! Hearts melt with fear; knees tremble, strength is gone; faces grow pale.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There are eleven days' journey from Horeb, by the way of Mount Seir, to Kadeshbarnea. Not that the Israelites came thither in eleven days from Horeb, for they stayed by the way at Kibrothhattaavah, a whole month at least, and seven days at Hazeroth; but the sense is, that this was the computed distance between the two places; it was what was reckoned a man might walk in eleven days; and if we reckon a day's journey twenty miles, of which :-, the distance must be two hundred and twenty miles. But Dr. Shaw e allows but ten miles for a day's journey, and then it was no more than one hundred and ten, and indeed a camp cannot be thought to move faster; but not the day's journey of a camp, but of a man, seems to be intended, who may very well walk twenty miles a day for eleven days running; but it seems more strange that another learned traveller f should place Kadeshbarnea at eight hours, or ninety miles distance only from Mount Sinai. Moses computes not the time that elapsed between those two places, including their stations, but only the time of travelling; and yet Jarchi says, though it was eleven days' journey according to common computation, the Israelites performed it in three days; for he observes that they set out from Horeb on the twentieth of Ijar, and on the twenty ninth of Sivan the spies were sent out from Kadeshbarnea; and if you take from hence the whole month they were at one place, and the seven days at another, there will be but three days left for them to travel in. And he adds, that the Shechinah, or divine Majesty, pushed them forward, to hasten their going into the land; but they corrupting themselves, he turned them about Mount Seir forty years. It is not easy to say for what reason these words are expressed, unless it be to show in how short a time the Israelites might have been in the land of Canaan, in a few days' journey from Horeb, had it not been for their murmurings and unbelief, for which they were turned into the wilderness again, and travelled about for the space of thirty eight years afterwards. Aben Ezra is of opinion, that the eleven days, for the word "journey" is not in the text, are to be connected with the preceding words; and that the sense is, that Moses spake these words in the above places, in the eleven days they went from Horeb to Kadesh.

e De loc. Heb. fol. 92. I. f Pococke's Description of the East, vol. 1. p. 157.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses are prefixed as a connecting link between the contents of the preceding books and that of Deuteronomy now to follow. The sense of the passage might be given thus: “The discourses of Moses to the people up to the eleventh month of the fortieth year” (compare Deuteronomy 1:3) “have now been recorded.” The proper names which follow seem to belong to places where “words” of remarkable importance were spoken. They are by the Jewish commentators referred to the spots which witnessed the more special sins of the people, and the mention of them here is construed as a pregnant rebuke. The Book of Deuteronomy is known among the Jews as “the book of reproofs.”

On this side of Jordan - Rather, “beyond Jordan” (as in Deuteronomy 3:20, Deuteronomy 3:25). The phrase was a standing designation for the district east of Jordan, and at times, when Greek became commonly spoken in the country, was exactly represented by the proper name Peraea.

In the wilderness, in the plain - The former term denotes the Desert of Arabia generally; the latter was the sterile tract (‘Arabah,’ Numbers 21:4 note) which stretches along the lower Jordan to the Dead Sea, and is continued thence to the Gulf of Akaba.

Over against the Red Sea - Render it: “over against Suph.” “Sea” is not in the original text. “Suph” is either the pass Es Sufah near Ain-el-Weibeh (Numbers 13:26 note), or the name of the alluvial district (the Numbers 21:14 note).

Tophel is identified with Tufileh, the Tafyle of Burckhardt, still a considerable place - some little distance southeast of the Dead Sea. Paran is probably “Mount Paran” Deuteronomy 33:2; or a city of the same name near the mountain. Compare Genesis 14:6.

Laban is generally identified with Libnah Numbers 33:20, and Hazeroth with Ain Hadherah (Numbers 11:34 note); but the position of Dizahab is uncertain.

Deuteronomy 1:2

For Kadesh see Numbers 13:26 note; and for Horeb see Exodus 3:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 1:2. There are eleven days' journey] The Israelites were eleven days in going from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea, where they were near the verge of the promised land; after which they were thirty-eight years wandering up and down in the vicinity of this place, not being permitted, because of their rebellions, to enter into the promised rest, though they were the whole of that time within a few miles of the land of Canaan!


 
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