Deuteronomy 1 · Verse 40

Deuteronomy 1:40

But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Deuteronomy 1:40, King James Version

Deuteronomy 1:40 in other translations

BSBBut you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
WEBBut as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
ASVBut as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
YLTand ye, turn for yourselves, and journey toward the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea.
DARBYBut ye, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
BBEBut as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.
WebsterBut as for you, turn ye, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

What does Deuteronomy 1:40 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 1:40-45
40-45. turn you, and take your journey into the ... Red Sea--This command they disregarded, and, determined to force an onward passage in spite of the earnest remonstrances of Moses, they attempted to cross the heights then occupied by the combined forces of the Amorites and Amalekites (compare Nu 14:43), but were repulsed with great loss. People often experience distress even while in the way of duty. But how different their condition who suffer in situations where God is with them from the feelings of those who are conscious that they are in a position directly opposed to the divine will! The Israelites were grieved when they found themselves involved in difficulties and perils; but their sorrow arose not from a sense of the guilt so much as the sad effects of their perverse conduct; and "though they wept," they were not true penitents. So the Lord would not hearken to their voice, nor give ear unto them.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:19-46

Moses reminds the Israelites of their march from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea, through that great and terrible wilderness. He shows how near they were to a happy settlement in Canaan. It will aggravate the eternal ruin of hypocrites, that they were not far from the kingdom of God. As if it were not enough that they were sure of their God before them, they would send men before them. Never any looked into the Holy Land…

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Deuteronomy 1:40 in the original Hebrew

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וְאַתֶּ֖םve.'a.Temand youH859
פְּנ֣וּpe.NuturnH6437
לָכֶ֑םla.Khem<for> yourselves
וּסְע֥וּu.se.'Uand set outH5265
הַמִּדְבָּ֖רָהha.mid.Ba.rahthe wilderness towardsH4057
דֶּ֥רֶךְDe.rekh[the] way ofH1870
יַם\־yam-[the] sea ofH3220
סֽוּף\׃Sufreed[s]H5488

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 1:40

  • Numbers 14:25

    (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 1:39

    Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

  • Deuteronomy 1:40

    But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

  • Deuteronomy 1:41

    Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.

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Deuteronomy 1:40 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y vosotros volveos, y partíos al desierto camino del mar Bermejo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et vous, tournez-vous, et partez pour le désert, par le chemin de la mer Rouge.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ihr aber, wendet euch und brechet auf nach der Wüste, des Weges zum Schilfmeere!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Vos autem revertimini, et abite in solitudinem per viam maris Rubri.