And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
We passed ... through the way of the plain, х haa-`Araabaah (H6160); Septuagint, Araba] - the Arabah or great valley. They passed along on the east side of it, around the southern boundary of Edom, to which they had been compelled to go from Kadesh.
From Elath (trees) - an Edomite or Horite city (the Ailah of the Greeks and Romans), now Eyleh. The site of it is marked by extensive mounds of rubbish. Elath, the sea-port of the Edomites, situated on the northern extremity of the gulf of Elath, stood at the southern border of Edom.
Ezion-gaber - now Akaba. Both were within the territory of Edom; and after making a circuit of its south eastern boundary, the Israelites, journeying in a northward direction, reached the border of Moab on the southeast of the Salt Sea.