New Living Translation (NLT)
Deuteronomy 1
40 As for you, turn around now and go on back through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.’
41 “Then you confessed, ‘We have sinned against the LORD! We will go into the land and fight for it, as the LORD our God has commanded us.’ So your men strapped on their weapons, thinking it would be easy to attack the hill country.
42 “But the LORD told me to tell you, ‘Do not attack, for I am not with you. If you go ahead on your own, you will be crushed by your enemies.’
43 “This is what I told you, but you would not listen. Instead, you again rebelled against the LORD’s command and arrogantly went into the hill country to fight.
44 But the Amorites who lived there came out against you like a swarm of bees. They chased and battered you all the way from Seir to Hormah.
45 Then you returned and wept before the LORD, but he refused to listen.
46 So you stayed there at Kadesh for a long time.
Deuteronomy 2
1 “Then we turned around and headed back across the wilderness toward the Red Sea, just as the LORD had instructed me, and we wandered around in the region of Mount Seir for a long time.
2 “Then at last the LORD said to me,
3 ‘You have been wandering around in this hill country long enough; turn to the north.
4 Give these orders to the people: “You will pass through the country belonging to your relatives the Edomites, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. The Edomites will feel threatened, so be careful.
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