KJV ORIGINAL
(There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
(It's an eleven-day journey from Mount Horeb through the hill country of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.)
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
The writer is noting that the journey from Mount Horeb (where God gave the law) to Kadesh-barnea should have taken only eleven days.
📚 Historical Context
This parenthetical note highlights the tragic irony of Israel's wilderness wandering - what should have been an eleven-day trip from Mount Sinai to the edge of the Promised Land took forty years because of their disobedience and lack of faith. Moses is emphasizing how close they had been to entering their inheritance before their rebellion at Kadesh-barnea led to decades of wandering in the desert.
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