Numbers 14:4 records the people's plan to return to Egypt — the opposite of God's command here to turn into the wilderness.

Numbers 14:41 shows the people trying to go up despite God's command to turn back — a direct contradiction to His instruction.

Numbers 14:43 warns that Amalekites and Canaanites are facing them — explaining why God commands them to turn back into the wilderness.

Numbers 13:29 lists Amalekites and Canaanites dwelling in the land — the same enemies mentioned here as dwelling in the valleys.

Numbers 21:4 describes Israel traveling by the way to the Red Sea from Mount Hor — later fulfillment of this same route command.

Deuteronomy 1:40 repeats God's command to turn toward the Red Sea — a parallel account of this same directive.

Deuteronomy 2:1 directly quotes this command: 'we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord told me.'

Deuteronomy 1:46 adds that Israel stayed many days at Kadesh after the command to turn away, filling in the timeline.