Many dayes] The Israelites abode in Kadesh many dayes. And they compassed Mount Seir many dayes: The space in which they came from Kadesh-barnea, till they came over the brook Zered, or pitch'd in the Valley of Zared, in Moab, being their thirty ninth Station, was thirty eight years; which was in the beginning of the fourtieth year of their coming out of Egypt, Deut. II. 1, 2, 3, 7, 14. some take thirty seven years and a half of this time to be spent at Kadesh-barnea: And sure the most of it was spent there; and the lesser and later part of it in compassing Mount Seir: And the other half year spent in coming from Mount Seir to Zered. See Deut. II. 7.