Deuteronomy 10:7

From thence they journeyed E's formula, Numbers 21:12-13.

Gudgodah to Jotbathah P, Numbers 33:32 f.; Hor-haggidgad and Yoṭbathah unknown. Both names are possibly derived from the character of the landscape. Ar. -gadgad" is hard, level ground; and Yoṭbah, or Yoṭbathah, is probably goodliness or pleasantness: a land of brooks of water. On all these names Doughty's remarks (Ar. Des.i. 49) are instructive:

-Here a word of the camping grounds of Moses: all their names we may never find again in these countries, and wherefore? Because they were a good part passengers" names and without land-right they could not remain in the desert, in the room of the old herdsmen's names. There is yet another kind of names, not rightly of the country, not known to the Beduins, which are caravaners" names. The caravaners passing in haste, with fear of the nomads, know not the wide wilderness without their landmarks; nor even in the way, have they a right knowledge of the land names. What wonder if we find not again some which are certainly caravaners" names in the old itineraries."