Deuteronomy 1:40
What does Deuteronomy 1:40 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 1:40 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
KJV
King James Version · 1611But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and ye, turn for yourselves, and journey toward the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890But ye, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Context
v.39Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
v.40This passage
v.41Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 14:25
Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
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