Deuteronomy - 2:3

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3 "You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 2:3.

Differing Translations

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Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward the north:
Ye have gone round this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Enough to you, is the going round of this mount; turn for yourselves northward.
You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;
'You have encompassed this mountain for long enough. Go forth, toward the north.
Sufficit vobis circuisse montem istum: convertite vos ad aquilonem.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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.

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.

Northward - Towards the land of the Amorites and Canaanites.

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