Israel responded with obedience to the Lord's command to depart from Horeb. The wilderness journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea, more than one hundred miles, was vast and life-threatening, a nearly waterless plateau. Moses' description points to the Lord's guidance of his people, and their obedience. That brought them to Kadesh-barnea, the border of the Promised Land.
19 Nous partîmes d'Horeb et nous parcourûmes en entier ce grand et affreux désert que vous avez vu; nous prîmes le chemin de la montagne des Amoréens, comme l'Eternel, notre Dieu, nous l'avait ordonné, et nous arrivâmes à Kadès-Barnéa.