Numbers 34
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The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter a the land of Canaan b (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders),
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c your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border shall run from the end of d the Salt Sea on the east.
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And your border shall turn south of e the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it shall go on to e Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon.
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And the border shall turn f from Azmon to g the Brook of Egypt, and its limit shall be at the sea.
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"For the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast. This shall be your western border.
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"This shall be your northern border: from the Great Sea you shall draw a line to h Mount Hor.
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From Mount Hor you shall draw a line i to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at j Zedad.
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Then the border shall extend to Ziphron, and its limit shall be at k Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern border.
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"You shall draw a line for your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham.
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And the border shall go down from Shepham to l Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of m the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.
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And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at n the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around."
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Moses commanded the people of Israel, saying, o "This is the land that you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.
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p For the tribe of the people of Reuben by fathers' houses and the tribe of the people of Gad by their fathers' houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh.
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The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise."
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The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: q Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.
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You shall take one r chief from every tribe to divide the land for inheritance.
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These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
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Of the tribe of the people of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
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Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
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Of the tribe of the people of Dan a chief, Bukki the son of Jogli.
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Of the people of Joseph: of the tribe of the people of Manasseh a chief, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
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And of the tribe of the people of Ephraim a chief, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
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Of the tribe of the people of Zebulun a chief, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
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Of the tribe of the people of Issachar a chief, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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And of the tribe of the people of Asher a chief, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
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Of the tribe of the people of Naphtali a chief, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
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These are the men whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan."
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Cross References
Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Psalms 105:11
Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance.
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Cross References
Numbers 34:13
Moses commanded the people of Israel, saying, "This is the land that you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.
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Cross References
Joshua 15:1
The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.
Genesis 15:18 - 21
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
Ezekiel 47:13 - 21
Thus says the Lord God : "This is the boundary by which you shall divide the land for inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.
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Cross References
Numbers 34:12
And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around.
Genesis 14:3
And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim ( that is, the Salt Sea).
Joshua 15:2
And their south boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward.
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Cross References
Joshua 15:3
It goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka.
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Cross References
Joshua 15:3
It goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka.
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Cross References
Joshua 15:4
Passes along to Azmon, goes out by the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary.
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Cross References
Genesis 15:18
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Joshua 15:4
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Joshua 15:47
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2 Kings 24:7
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1 Chronicles 13:5
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2 Chronicles 7:8
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Isaiah 27:12
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Cross References
Numbers 33:37
And they set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
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Cross References
Numbers 13:21
So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.
2 Kings 14:25
He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.
Ezekiel 48:1
These are the names of the tribes: Beginning at the northern extreme, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan (which is on the northern border of Damascus over against Hamath), and extending from the east side to the west, Dan, one portion.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 47:15
This shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side, from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, and on to Zedad.
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Ezekiel 47:17
So the boundary shall run from the sea to Hazar-enan, which is on the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This shall be the north side.
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Cross References
2 Kings 23:33
And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Jeremiah 39:5
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence on him.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:17
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Joshua 11:2
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Joshua 12:3
And the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastwar...
Joshua 19:35
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Matthew 4:18
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Luke 5:1
On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing i...
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Cross References
Numbers 34:3
Your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border shall run from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.
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Cross References
Numbers 34:2
Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders).
Joshua 14:1 - 2
These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.
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Cross References
Numbers 32:33
And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.
Joshua 14:3
For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
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Cross References
Joshua 14:1
These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.
Joshua 19:51
These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land.
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Cross References
Numbers 1:4
And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.
Numbers 1:16
These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.
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