And they told him, and said, We came unto the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Cades. The desert of Pharan, or of Cades, is the same. (Haydock)
The town is sometimes called Cades-barne, or Recem, (Chaldean) which is Petra, the capital of the stony Arabia, and lies rather nearer to the Dead Sea than to the Mediterranean. It was on the high road from the Red Sea to Hebron. In one part of the desert of Cades, the people murmured for want of water, chap. xx. 1. But there was plenty near the city. Moses continued here a long time after the return of the spies, Deuteronomy i. 19, 46. (Calmet)
