They traveled from Succoth, and camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

(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.”

Why have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as at the other times to seek for omens, but he set his face toward the wilderness.