Deuteronomy 1:40

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But as for you, turn back and head for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 14:25 : 25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

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  • Deut 2:1-3
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    1The Journey from Kadesh Barnea to Moab Then we turned and set out toward the wilderness on the way to the Red Sea just as the LORD told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.

    2At this point the LORD said to me,

    3“You have circled around this mountain long enough; now turn north.

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    17The Leading of God When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said,“Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war.”

    18So God brought the people around by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea, and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle.

  • 7Head out and resume your journey. Enter the Amorite hill country, and into all its neighboring areas, including the rift valley, the hill country, the foothills, the Negev, and the coastal plain– all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

  • Num 14:25-26
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    25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • 19Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

  • Exod 14:1-3
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    1The Victory at the Red Sea The LORD spoke to Moses:

    2“Tell the Israelites that they must turn and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you are to camp by the sea before Baal Zephon opposite it.

    3Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites,‘They are wandering around confused in the land– the desert has closed in on them.’

  • Num 33:10-11
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    10They traveled from Elim, and camped by the Red Sea.

    11They traveled from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.

  • 41Unsuccessful Conquest of Canaan Then you responded to me and admitted,“We have sinned against the LORD. We will now go up and fight as the LORD our God has told us to do.” So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.

  • Deut 11:4-5
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    4or what he did to the army of Egypt, including their horses and chariots, when he made the waters of the Red Sea overwhelm them while they were pursuing you and he annihilated them.

    5They did not see what he did to you in the wilderness before you reached this place,

  • 16When they left Egypt, Israel traveled through the desert as far as the Red Sea and then came to Kadesh.

  • Deut 1:1-2
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    1¶ The Covenant Setting This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di Zahab.

    2Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.

  • 4Fiery Serpents Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way.

  • Deut 1:33-34
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    33the one who would go before you on the way to find places for you to camp, appearing in a fire at night and in a cloud by day to show you the way you ought to go.

    34Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:

  • Num 14:32-33
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    32But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,

    33and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.

  • 31and in the wilderness, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”

  • 15For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”

  • Josh 24:6-7
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    6When I brought your fathers out of Egypt, you arrived at the sea. The Egyptians chased your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.

    7Your fathers cried out for help to the LORD; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.

  • 20They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert.

  • 1Wanderings from Egypt to Sinai These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority of Moses and Aaron.

  • 39Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

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    15The LORD said to Moses,“Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

    16And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.

  • 8So we turned away from our relatives the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the route of the rift valley which comes up from Elat and Ezion Geber, and traveling the way of the wilderness of Moab.

  • 27We must go on a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God, just as he is telling us.”

  • 8He then asked,“Which invasion route are we going to take?” Jehoram answered,“By the road through the wilderness of Edom.”

  • 22The Bitter Water Then Moses led Israel to journey away from the Red Sea. They went out to the wilderness of Shur, walked for three days into the wilderness, and found no water.

  • 2Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

  • 8They traveled from Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and camped in Marah.

  • 36This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

  • 9He shouted at the Red Sea and it dried up; he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.

  • 22So all of you approached me and said,“Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”

  • 1The Provision of Manna When they journeyed from Elim, the entire company of Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus from the land of Egypt.

  • 11Then he said to me,“Get up, set out leading the people so they may go and possess the land I promised to give to their ancestors.”

  • 13Judah Begins the Journey This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment of the LORD, by the authority of Moses.

  • 15They traveled from Rephidim and camped in the desert of Sinai.

  • 1Water at Massa and Meribah The whole community of the Israelites traveled on their journey from the wilderness of Sin according to the LORD’s instruction, and they pitched camp in Rephidim. Now there was no water for the people to drink.

  • 6Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.