Question about English US. What is the difference between desert and wilderness? Feel free to just provide example sentences. Report copyright infringement. The owner of it will not be notified. Only the user who asked this question will see who disagreed with this answer. Read more comments. Deleted user. In this verse it tells us that the children of Israel entered the "wilderness" of Sinai. This "wilderness" was an uninhabited place, not infertile or sterile. It was not a wide barren plain without water or vegetation.
To say this I base myself upon the fact that to nourish sheep, cows, donkeys , etc, there had to be grass and water in the place. Not only did they have a sufficient amount of drinking water, but also enough to wash their clothes , as we can verify in Ex " In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai " Ex " And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
It was not like what we would consider a desert today. This is proven by the fact that in this "deserted place" where the people would meet, there was a stream of water where Moses threw the dust from the golden calf. This doesn't mean that there was always a place to retrieve water.
Much less for a massive group composed of two million people and their animals. It also doesn't mean that anytime we see the word "desert" we should imagine a place where you only see sand. We may also look in Dt where the existence of streams is also mentioned. Therefore, they had grass and water for the animals just as they did for people.
Likewise, in the following passage it declares that the firewood upon the altar had to burn constantly without being put out. By consequence, the priest had to have enough wood to constantly place over the altar It is logical to reason that this deserted place is not like what we see in the Sahara or any other wide barren plains.
It is obvious that in this so-called deserted place, there was plenty of woodland to produce all of the firewood needed to constantly keep the altar burning every day during the whole year.
And not only for the altar, but also for cooking food, and for any other uses the two million or so individuals had. This was not an infertile location; instead it was a deserted region without people or cities.
A similar case can be seen in Nm As you can see in this verse, what they called "wilderness" wasn't always what we would conceive in our minds. For us "wilderness" or "deserted places" are like the dunes of the Sahara , where only the sky and the sand are visible.
This obviously is not the context in which the word "wilderness" is used. I'm sure it would be difficult to gather firewood in the desert. The Devil is there, but so is the Spirit. This records a search for solitude, for self-discovery, for divine presence, but this process, crucially, seems to require the ambience of the natural environment.
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