There are eleven days' journey from Horeb, by the way of Mount
Seir, to Kadeshbarnea.
] Not that the Israelites came thither in eleven days from Horeb, for they stayed by the way at Kibrothhattaavah, a whole month at least, and seven days at Hazeroth; but the sense is, that this was the computed distance between the two places; it was what was reckoned a man might walk in eleven days; and if we reckon a day's journey twenty miles, of which (See Gill on Jonah 3:3), the distance must be two hundred and twenty miles. But Dr. Shaw F5 allows but ten miles for a day's journey, and then it was no more than one hundred and ten, and indeed a camp cannot be thought to move faster; but not the day's journey of a camp, but of a man, seems to be intended, who may very well walk twenty miles a day for eleven days running; but it seems more strange that another learned traveller
F5 De loc. Heb. fol. 92. I.
F6 Pococke's Description of the East, vol. 1. p. 157.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.