Numbers 34
1 The LORD spoke to Moses:
2 “Command the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that will fall to you as an inheritance: the land of Canaan, with its boundaries.
3 Your southern side will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. Your southern boundary will run from the eastern end of the Salt Sea.
4 Your boundary will turn south of the Scorpion Pass and pass through Zin. Its endpoint will be south of Kadesh-barnea. From there it will go to Hazar-addar and pass through Azmon.
5 From Azmon the boundary will turn to the Brook of Egypt, and its endpoint will be the sea.
6 The Great Sea will be your western boundary; this will be your western boundary.
7 This will be your northern boundary: from the Great Sea, mark out the line to Mount Hor.
8 From Mount Hor, mark out the line to the entrance of Hamath, and the boundary’s endpoint will be Zedad.
9 The boundary will extend to Ziphron, and its endpoint will be Hazar-enan. This will be your northern boundary.
10 For your eastern boundary, mark out the line from Hazar-enan to Shepham.
11 The boundary will descend from Shepham to Riblah, east of Ain. It will descend and reach the eastern shore of the Sea of Chinnereth.
12 The boundary will descend to the Jordan, and its endpoint will be the Salt Sea. This will be your land, with its boundaries all around.’”
13 Moses commanded the Israelites: “This is the land you will inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
14 For the tribe of the Reubenites, by their families, and the tribe of the Gadites, by their families, have already received their inheritance, and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.
15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance across the Jordan, opposite Jericho, to the east, toward the sunrise.”
16 The LORD spoke to Moses:
17 “These are the names of the men who will apportion the land to you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
18 You shall take one leader from each tribe to apportion the land as an inheritance.
19 These are the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh.
20 From the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel son of Ammihud.
21 From the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon.
22 From the tribe of the Danites, the leader Bukki son of Jogli.
23 From the descendants of Joseph: from the tribe of the Manassites, the leader Hanniel son of Ephod.
24 From the tribe of the Ephraimites, the leader Kemuel son of Shiphtan.
25 From the tribe of the Zebulunites, the leader Elizaphan son of Parnach.
26 From the tribe of the Issacharites, the leader Paltiel son of Azzan.
27 From the tribe of the Asherites, the leader Ahihud son of Shelomi.
28 From the tribe of the Naphtalites, the leader Pedahel son of Ammihud.”
29 These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
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