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Numbers 20:16

NUMBERS—NOTE ON Numbers 20:16 Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory. In the second millennium B.C., Edom’s main settlements were southeast of the Dead Sea. Kadesh-barnea (see note on 10:11–12:16) is a long way west of there, in northern Sinai. This suggests that either the Edomites were living west of the Dead Sea, or another Kadesh is meant instead of Kadesh-barnea.

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