The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 2:13

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The brook Zered; either the stream of the Wady cf. Ahsy (Robinson, 2.157; Ritter, 3.78), or that of the Wady Kerab (Keil, Kurz, etc.); see Numbers 21:11, and Smith's 'Dictionary.' 3.1842. This brook formed the boundary line between Edom and Moab, and was the limit of Israel's wanderings in the wilderness.

They crossed it thirty-eight years after the doom had been pronounced upon them at Kadesh, and during that period the entire generation of those who had rebelled had died out.

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