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Complete Jewish Bible

Deuteronomy 2:3

‘You have been going around this mountain long enough! Head north,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ar;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Pentateuch;   Seir, Mount;   Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Manna;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Seir, Mount;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Seir;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Esau and Jacob;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Arabah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Samuel B. Meïr (Rashbam);  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
King James Version
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Lexham English Bible
Long enough you have been skirting this mountain; turn yourselves north,
English Standard Version
‘You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. Turn northward
New Century Version
"You have traveled through these mountains long enough. Turn north
New English Translation
"You have circled around this mountain long enough; now turn north.
Amplified Bible
'You have circled this mountain long enough; turn northward,
New American Standard Bible
'You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye haue compassed this mountaine long ynough: turne you Northward.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north,
Contemporary English Version
Israel has wandered in these hills long enough. Turn and go north.
Darby Translation
Ye have gone round this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Easy-to-Read Version
‘You have traveled around these mountains long enough. Turn north.
George Lamsa Translation
You have circled this mountain long enough; turn northward.
Good News Translation
that we had spent enough time wandering about in those hills and that we should go north.
Christian Standard Bible®
‘You’ve been traveling around this hill country long enough; turn north.
Literal Translation
You have gone around this mountain long enough; turn yourselves northward.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye haue copassed this mountayne now loge ynough, turne you Northwarde,
American Standard Version
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Bible in Basic English
You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye haue compassed this mountayne long inough, turne you northwarde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Ye have compassed this mountain long enough; turn you northward.
King James Version (1611)
Yee haue compassed this mountaine long enough: turne you Northward.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye have compassed this mount long enough; turn therefore toward the north.
English Revised Version
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Berean Standard Bible
"You have been wandering around this hill country long enough; turn to the north
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
go ye ayens the north.
Young's Literal Translation
Enough to you -- is the going round of this mount; turn for yourselves northward.
Update Bible Version
You have compassed this mountain long enough: you turn northward.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
World English Bible
You have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
New King James Version
"You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward.
New Living Translation
‘You have been wandering around in this hill country long enough; turn to the north.
New Life Bible
‘You have traveled around this mountain long enough. Now turn north.
New Revised Standard
"You have been skirting this hill country long enough. Head north,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Long enough, have ye encompassed this mountain, - turn yourselves north, wards.
Douay-Rheims Bible
You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward the north:
Revised Standard Version
'You have been going about this mountain country long enough; turn northward.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north,

Contextual Overview

1 "Then we turned and began traveling into the desert along the road to the Sea of Suf, as Adonai had said to me; and we skirted Mount Se‘ir for a long time. 2 (v) Finally Adonai said to me, 3 ‘You have been going around this mountain long enough! Head north, 4 and give this order to the people: "You are to pass through the territory of your kinsmen the descendants of ‘Esav who live in Se‘ir. They will be afraid of you, so be very cautious, 5 and don't get into disputes with them; for I am not going to give you any of their land, no, not even enough for one foot to stand on; inasmuch as I have given Mount Se‘ir to ‘Esav as his possession. 6 Pay them money for the food you eat, and pay them money for the water you drink. 7 For Adonai your God has blessed you in everything your hands have produced. He knows that you have been traveling through this vast desert; these forty years Adonai your God has been with you; and you have lacked nothing.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

long enough: Deuteronomy 2:7, Deuteronomy 2:14, Deuteronomy 1:6

Reciprocal: Numbers 9:22 - abode

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
On the seventh day God was finished with his work which he had made, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Genesis 2:3
God blessed the seventh day and separated it as holy; because on that day God rested from all his work which he had created, so that it itself could produce.
Genesis 2:4
(A: iv, S: ii) Here is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created. On the day when Adonai , God, made earth and heaven,
Genesis 2:7
Then Adonai , God, formed a person from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living being.
Genesis 2:8
Adonai , God, planted a garden toward the east, in ‘Eden, and there he put the person whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:10
A river went out of ‘Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided into four streams.
Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon; it winds throughout the land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
Genesis 2:13
The name of the second river is Gichon; it winds throughout the land of Kush.
Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one that flows toward the east of Ashur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye have compassed this mountain long enough,.... It was time to be gone from thence, as from Horeb, Deuteronomy 1:6,

turn you northward; from the southern border of Edom towards the land of Canaan, which lay north. It was from Eziongeber in the land of Edom, from whence the Israelites came to Kadesh, where they sent messengers to the king of Edom, to desire a passage through his land; see Numbers 33:36.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 2:1 seems to refer in general terms to the long years of wandering, the details of which were not for Moses’ present purpose. The command of Deuteronomy 2:2-3 relates to their journey from Kadesh to Mount Hor Numbers 20:22; Numbers 33:37, and directs their march around to the southern extremity of Mount Seir, so as to “compass the land of Edom” Judges 11:18; Numbers 21:4, and so northward toward the Arnon, i. e., “by the way of the wilderness of Moab,” Deuteronomy 2:8. This circuitous path was followed because of the refusal of the Edomites to allow the people to pass through their territory.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 2:3. Turn you northward. — From Mount Seir, in order to get to Canaan. This was not the way they went before, viz., by Kadesh-barnea, but they were to proceed between Edom on the one hand, and Moab and Ammon on the other, so as to enter into Canaan through the land of the Amorites.


 
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