Boundaries of the Land
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Command the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into a the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance - the land of Canaan to its boundaries.
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b 'Your southern border shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom; then your southern border shall extend eastward to the end of c the Salt Sea;
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'your border shall turn from the southern side of d the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and be on the south of e Kadesh Barnea; then it shall go on to f Hazar Addar, and continue to Azmon;
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'the border shall turn from Azmon g to the Brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the Sea.
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'As for the h western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border.
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'And this shall be your northern border: From the Great Sea you shall mark out your border line to i Mount Hor;
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'from Mount Hor you shall mark out your border j to the entrance of Hamath; then the direction of the border shall be toward k Zedad;
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'the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and it shall end at l Hazar Enan. This shall be your northern border.
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'You shall mark out your eastern border from Hazar Enan to Shepham;
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'the border shall go down from Shepham m to Riblah on the east side of Ain; the border shall go down and reach to the eastern side of the Sea n of Chinnereth;
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'the border shall go down along the Jordan, and it shall end at o the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries.' "
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Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: p "This is the land which 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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q "For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.
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"The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, across from Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise."
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Cross References
Genesis 17:8
"Also I give to you and your descendants after ...
Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn and take your journey, and go to the mount...
Deuteronomy 1:8
'See, I have set the land before you; go in and...
Psalms 78:54
And He brought them to His holy border, This mo...
Psalms 78:55
He also drove out the nations before them, Allo...
Psalms 105:11
Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan ...
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Cross References
Joshua 15:1 - 3
So this was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families: The border of Edom at the Wilderness of Zin southward was the extreme southern boundary.
Ezekiel 47:13
Thus says the Lord GOD: "These are the borders by which you shall divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.
Ezekiel 47:19
The south side, toward the South, shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh, along the brook to the Great Sea. This is the south side, toward the South.
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Cross References
Genesis 14:3
All these joined together in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
Joshua 15:2
And their southern border began at the shore of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward.
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Cross References
Joshua 15:3
Then it went out to the southern side of the Ascent of Akrabbim, passed along to Zin, ascended on the south side of Kadesh Barnea, passed along to Hezron, went up to Adar, and went around to Karkaa.
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Cross References
Numbers 13:26
Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers 32:8
Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
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Cross References
Joshua 15:3
Then it went out to the southern side of the Ascent of Akrabbim, passed along to Zin, ascended on the south side of Kadesh Barnea, passed along to Hezron, went up to Adar, and went around to Karkaa.
Joshua 15:4
From there it passed toward Azmon and went out to the Brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your southern border.
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Cross References
Genesis 15:18
On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates -
Joshua 15:4
From there it passed toward Azmon and went out to the Brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your southern border.
Joshua 15:47
Ashdod with its towns and villages, Gaza with its towns and villages - as far as the Brook of Egypt and the Great Sea with its coastline.
1 Kings 8:65
At that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven more days - fourteen days.
Isaiah 27:12
And it shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will thresh, From the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt; And you will be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.
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Cross References
Exodus 23:31
And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the desert to the River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
Joshua 15:12
The west border was the coastline of the Great Sea. This is the boundary of the children of Judah all around according to their families.
Ezekiel 47:20
The west side shall be the Great Sea, from the southern boundary until one comes to a point opposite Hamath. This is the west side.
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Cross References
Numbers 33:37
They moved from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the boundary 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 as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.
Joshua 13:5
The land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath.
2 Kings 14:25
He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which He had spoken through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet who was from Gath Hepher.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 47:15
This shall be the border of the land on the north: from the Great Sea, by the road to Hethlon, as one goes to Zedad.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 47:17
Thus the boundary shall be from the Sea to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus; and as for the north, northward, it is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
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Cross References
2 Kings 23:33
Now Pharaoh Necho put him in prison at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a tribute of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Jeremiah 39:5
But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had captured him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.
Jeremiah 39:6
Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes in Riblah; the king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:17
The plain also, with the Jordan as the border, ...
Joshua 11:2
And to the kings who were from the north, in th...
Joshua 12:3
And the eastern Jordan plain from the Sea of Ch...
Joshua 13:27
And in the valley Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succ...
Joshua 19:35
And the fortified cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hamma...
Matthew 14:34
When they had crossed over, they came to the la...
Luke 5:1
So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him t...
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Cross References
Numbers 34:3
Your southern border shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom; then your southern border shall extend eastward to the end of the Salt Sea.
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Cross References
Genesis 15:18
On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates -
Numbers 26:52 - 56
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.
Joshua 14:1 - 5
These are the areas which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed as an inheritance to them.
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Cross References
Numbers 32:33
So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the 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 with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country.
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