King James Version
Deuteronomy 1:2 in the King James Version says “( There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“( There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)”
Deuteronomy 1:2 · KJV
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. the Red: or, Zuph
( There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“by the way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“Seir”
H8165seir, a mountain of idumaea and its indigenous occupants, also one in palestine
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
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