Deuteronomy 1:40

But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

In Context

39And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.

41Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:25Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 1:20-46

Israel's Sin at Kadesh. ( b. c. 1451.) 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be… Read the whole commentary →

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