‘The WASTELAND’ — the dry, broken country falling away toward the north end of the Dead Sea, the view from Peor at Numbers 23:28. ⭐ It is one of those Hebrew words that sits on the line between a description and an address, and the shelf splits evenly on which it is: the KJV, Geneva, the RV 1909 and the NWT 1984 keep it as a NAME, while the ASV, the Douay-Rheims, the NIV and the RV60 translate it as the desert or the wilderness — and the NVI declines to choose and prints both. ⚠ The split runs along the same seam as the wild ox six verses earlier, where the RV 1909’s «unicornio» became the RV60’s «búfalo»: a version and its own later revision are two different witnesses. This translation transliterates and puts the meaning in the note, because on an itinerary a name is doing the work of a name.