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Deuteronomy 1:40

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Red Sea;   Reproof;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kadesh Barnea;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Red Sea (Reed Sea);   Wrath, Wrath of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Red Sea;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf.
King James Version
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Lexham English Bible
But you turn and set out in the direction of the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.'
English Standard Version
But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.'
New Century Version
But you must turn around and follow the desert road toward the Red Sea."
New English Translation
But as for you, turn back and head for the desert by the way to the Red Sea."
Amplified Bible
'But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds).'
New American Standard Bible
'But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.'
Geneva Bible (1587)
But as for you, turne backe, and take your iourney into the wildernesse by the way of the red Sea.
Legacy Standard Bible
But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'
Contemporary English Version
Now, turn around and go back into the desert by way of Red Sea Road.
Complete Jewish Bible
But as for yourselves, turn around and head into the desert by the road to the Sea of Suf.'
Darby Translation
But ye, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Easy-to-Read Version
But you—you must turn around, take the road to the Red Sea and go back into the desert.'
George Lamsa Translation
But as for you, turn you and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
Good News Translation
But as for you people, turn around and go back into the desert on the road to the Gulf of Aqaba.'
Christian Standard Bible®
But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.’
Literal Translation
And you, turn yourselves and pull up stakes toward the wilderness, the way of the Sea of Reeds.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But as for you, turne you, and take youre iourney to the wyldernesse, euen the waye to the reed see.
American Standard Version
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But as for you, turne your face, and take your iourney into the wildernesse, euen by the way of the red sea.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'
King James Version (1611)
But as for you, turne ye, and take your iourney into the wildernesse, by the way of the Red sea.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red Sea.
English Revised Version
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
Berean Standard Bible
But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli turne ye ayen, and go ye in to the wildirnesse, bi the weie of the Reed See.
Young's Literal Translation
and ye, turn for yourselves, and journey toward the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea.
Update Bible Version
But as for you, you turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
Webster's Bible Translation
But [as for] you, turn ye, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
World English Bible
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
New King James Version
But as for you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.'
New Living Translation
As for you, turn around now and go on back through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.'
New Life Bible
But as for you, turn around and go into the desert by way of the Red Sea.'
New Revised Standard
But as for you, journey back into the wilderness, in the direction of the Red Sea."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But as for you, turn ye, for your part, - and set forward towards the desert, by way of the Red Sea.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
Revised Standard Version
But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'

Contextual Overview

19 Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. 21 See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled. 22 And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come. 23 And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one from every tribe; 24 And they went up into the hill-country and came to the valley of Eshcol, and saw what was there. 25 And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us. 26 But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up: 27 And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction. 28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 14:25

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:4 - by the way Deuteronomy 2:1 - we turned Judges 11:16 - walked

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But as for you, turn ye,.... From the mountain of the Amorites, the border of the land of Canaan:

and take your journey into the wilderness, by the way of the Red sea: see Numbers 14:25. Jarchi says this wilderness was by the side of the Red sea, to the south of Mount Seir, and divided between the Red sea and the mount; so that now they drew to the side of the sea, and compassed Mount Seir, all the south of it, from west to east.


 
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