Deuteronomy 2:8

And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Self ,.... Along their coasts, by the borders of their country:

through the way of the plain ; the wilderness of Zin, where Kadesh was:

from Elath and Eziongeber ; the two ports on the shore of the Red sea in the land of Edom; it was from the latter they came to Kadesh; see Numbers 33:35 . Elath was ten miles from Petra, the metropolis of Edom, to the east of it, as Jerom says F26 De loc. Heb. fol. 91. E. ; it is by Josephus F1 Antiqu. l. 8. c. 6. sect. 4. called Aelana, and by the Septuagint here Ailon; from whence the Elanitic bay has its name; he speaks of it as not far from Eziongeber, which he says was then called Berenice:

we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab ; the wilderness which is before Moab, towards the sun rising or the east, Numbers 21:11 .