“And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh–barnea.”
And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way of the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea -- the wilderness journey, framed as obedience to the LORD's command, brings Israel to the threshold. Yet 'great and terrible' captures the wilderness' dual nature: it is both the proving ground of faith and the arena of human terror. Kadesh-barnea is the critical juncture: the people stand at the edge of promise.
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