Cross reference
Deuteronomy 2:3
3 You have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Deuteronomy 1:6
6 Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain:
Deuteronomy 2:14
14 The days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.