Deuteronomy 1:6-7

Events at Horeb

1:6 The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb and said, “You have stayed ¹  in the area of this mountain long enough. 1:7 Get up now, ²  resume your journey, heading for ³  the Amorite hill country, to all its areas ⁴  including the arid country, ⁵  the highlands, the Shephelah, ⁶  the Negev, ⁷  and the coastal plain – all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

[1:6]  ¹ tn Heb “lived”; “dwelled.”

[1:7]  ² tn Heb “turn”; NAB “Leave here”; NIV, TEV “Break camp.”

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “go (to).”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “its dwelling places.”

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Arabah” (so ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[1:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “lowlands” (so TEV) or “steppes”; NIV, CEV, NLT “the western foothills.”

[1:7]  ⁷ sn The Hebrew term Negev means literally “desert” or “south” (so KJV, ASV). It refers to the area south of Beer Sheba and generally west of the Arabah Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.