Numbers 34:12

Then the border will extend south along the Jordan River and end at the Dead Sea. Those will be the borders around your country.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.

In Context

11From there it will extend east of Ain to Riblah and then along the hills that are east of Galilee Lake.

13So Moses/I told all that to the Israeli people. Then he/I said to them, “That is the land that you will receive. You must throw ◄lots/stones that have been marked► to decide which area will go to each of the nine and a half tribes, because Yahweh has commanded that it should be divided among them.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:10Lot looked around toward Zoar town, and saw that there was plenty of water all over the plain near the Jordan River. It was like the park/garden in Eden, and like the land in Egypt. [That was before Yahweh destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah which were on that plain.]

Genesis 19:24Then Yahweh caused fire and burning sulfur to fall down on Sodom and Gomorrah like rain.

Numbers 34:3On the south you will receive part of the Zin Desert, near the border of the Edom region. On the east side, the border will start at the south end of the Dead Sea.

Joshua 15:5The eastern border of the land of the tribe of Judah was the Dead Sea, and it extended north to where the Jordan River ends at the Dead Sea.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 34:2-16

The Boundaries of Canaan. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:) 3 Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward: 4 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of… Read the whole commentary →

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