the wilderness … the Red Sea … Kadesh The route is generalized, perhaps from reminiscences of Numbers 14:25; Numbers 20:14 (JE), as Moore suggests. It is now generally held that Kadesh is to be identified with -Ain Ḳadîs, 50 m. S. of Beer-sheba. Judges 11:16-18 agree with JE's narrative in Num., according to which the Israelites journeyed straight from Sinai to Kadesh, and abode in Kadesh(Judges 11:17; Numbers 20:1 b) apparently till the fortieth year of the Exodus (Numbers 20:14; Numbers 20:16). D and P give divergent accounts; see Gray, Numbers, p. 260.

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