Numbers 11:22

11:22 Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

Numbers 13:29

13:29 The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks 1  of the Jordan.” 2 

Numbers 14:25

14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) 3  Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

Numbers 21:4

Fiery Serpents

21:4 Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, 4  to go around the land of Edom, but the people 5  became impatient along the way.

Numbers 33:8

33:8 They traveled from Pi-hahiroth, 6  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.

Numbers 34:3

34:3 your southern border 7  will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the Edomite border, and your southern border will run eastward to the extremity of the Salt Sea,

Numbers 34:12

34:12 Then the border will continue down the Jordan River 8  and its direction will be to the Salt Sea. This will be your land by its borders that surround it.’”

1 tn Heb “by the side [hand] of.”

2 sn For more discussion on these people groups, see D. J. Wiseman, ed., Peoples of Old Testament Times.

3 sn The judgment on Israel is that they turn back to the desert and not attack the tribes in the land. So a parenthetical clause is inserted to state who was living there. They would surely block the entrance to the land from the south – unless God removed them. And he is not going to do that for Israel.

4 tn The “Red Sea” is the general designation for the bodies of water on either side of the Sinai peninsula, even though they are technically gulfs from the Red Sea.

5 tn Heb “the soul of the people,” expressing the innermost being of the people as they became frustrated.

6 tc So many medieval Hebrew manuscripts, Smr, Syriac, and Latin Vulgate. Other witnesses have “from before Hahiroth.”

7 tn The expression refers to the corner or extremity of the Negev, the South.

8 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.