Home › Forums › Location of Mount Sinai › The distance from Kadesh Barnea › Reply To: The distance from Kadesh Barnea
-
The concept of an 11-days’ journey between Horeb to Kadesh is found in:
Deu 1:1-2 JPS These are the words which Moses spoke unto all Israel beyond the Jordan; in the wilderness, in the Arabah, over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab. (2) It is eleven days journey from Horeb unto Kadesh-barnea by the way of mount Seir.
This distance has been used to test and disqualify various candidates for Mount Sinai-Horeb in the Sinai Peninsula, Transjordan, and Arabian Peninsula. For over 100 years, Kadesh is securely identified at Ayn Qudayrat (Ein Qudeirat) in the northeastern Sinai.