1. “Then we turned and set out toward the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as Yahweh told me, and we went around Mount Seir for many days.
2. Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
3. ‘Long enough you have been skirting this mountain; turn yourselves north,
4. and instruct the people, saying, “You are about to cross through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who are living in Seir; they will be afraid of you, and so be very careful.