2:1 Then we turned and set out toward the desert land on the way to the Red Sea ¹  just as the Lord told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time. 2:3 “You have circled around this mountain long enough; now turn north.

2:8 So we turned away from our relatives ²  the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the desert route, ³  from Elat ⁴  and Ezion Geber, ⁵  and traveling the way of the Moab wastelands.