Deuteronomy 1:2

Contemporary English Version

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.)

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

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

¹This book contains the speeches that Moses made while Israel was in the land of Moab, camped near the town of Suph in the desert east of the Jordan River. The town of Paran was in one direction from their camp, and the towns of Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab were in the opposite direction. Earlier, Moses had defeated the Amorite King Sihon of Heshbon. Moses had also defeated King Og of Bashan, who used to live in Ashtaroth for part of the year and in Edrei for the rest of the year. Although it takes only eleven days to walk from Mount Sinai to Kadesh-Barnea by way of the Mount Seir Road, these speeches were not made until forty years after Israel left Egypt. The Lord had given Moses his laws for the people of Israel. And on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses began explaining those laws by saying: ⁶ People of Israel, when we were in our camp at Mount Sinai, the Lord our God told us: You have stayed here long enough. ⁷ Leave this place and go into the land that belongs to the Amorites and their neighbors the Canaanites. This land includes the Jordan River valley, the hill country, the western foothills, the Southern Desert, the Mediterranean seacoast, the Lebanon Mountains, and all the territory as far as the Euphrates River. ⁸ I give you this land, just as I promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now you must go and take the land.

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
The earth produced all kinds of vegetation. God looked at what he had done, and it was good.

Genesis 1:14

The Fourth Day

God said, "I command lights to appear in the sky and to separate day from night and to show the time for seasons, special days, and years.

Job 26:7
who hung the northern sky and suspended the earth on empty space.

Job 26:14
These things are merely a whisper of God's power at work. How little we would understand if this whisper ever turned into thunder!

Psalms 33:6
The Lord made the heavens and everything in them by his word.

Isaiah 45:18
The Lord alone is God! He created the heavens and made a world where people can live, instead of creating an empty desert. The Lord alone is God; there are no others.

Nahum 2:10
Nineveh is doomed! Destroyed! Her people tremble with fear; their faces turn 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!