Deuteronomy 2:1

II.

(1) Then. — In the original simply “And.” There is no note of time.

By the way of the Red sea. — i.e., in the direction of the Gulf of Akabah, southwards.

As the Lord spake unto me. — In Numbers 14:25, as noted on Deuteronomy 1:40.

Many days. — Until near the close of the thirty-ninth year of the exodus.