Deuteronomy 1:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

Eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Cadesbarne.
Douay-Rheims

אַחַ֨ד עָשָׂ֥ר יוֹם֙ מֵֽחֹרֵ֔ב דֶּ֖רֶךְ הַר־שֵׂעִ֑יר עַ֖ד קָדֵ֥שׁ בַּרְנֵֽעַ׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Ephraem the Syrian

4th centuryChurch Father

The second commandment is articulated and elucidated following the journey of eleven days from Horeb to Mount Seir. This reveals the profound truth that at the final hour, Immanuel ventured forth to find the wandering nations and imparted to them the teachings of the New Covenant.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Num 13:26And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,
Num 32:8Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land?
Deut 9:23And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess the land that I have given you, and you slighted the commandment of the Lord your God, and did not believe him, neither would you hearken to his voice:
Ex 3:1Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.
Lev 2:14But if thou offer a gift of the firstfruits of thy corn to the Lord, of the ears yet green, thou shalt dry it at the fire, and break it small like meal; and so shalt thou offer thy firstfruits to the Lord:
Lev 9:23And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the testimony, and afterwards came forth and blessed the people. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the multitude.
Num 20:17And we beseech thee that we may have leave to pass through thy country. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, we will not drink the waters of thy wells, but we will go by the common highway, neither turning aside to the right hand, nor to the left, till we are past thy borders.
Num 20:21Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from him.