Numbers 34

1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),Cross-references: Gen 12:6 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 15:16 · Gen 17:8 · Num 33:51 · Deut 1:7 · +10 more

3then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.Cross-references: Gen 14:3 · Ex 23:31 · Josh 3:16 · Josh 15:1 · Ezek 47:8 · Ezek 47:13 · +1 more

4Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and it shall pass southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go from there to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon.Cross-references: Num 13:21 · Num 13:26 · Num 20:1 · Num 32:8 · Num 33:36 · Num 34:3 · +2 more

5The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Num 34:6 · Josh 15:4 · Josh 15:47 · 1Ki 8:65 · Isa 27:12

6“‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.Cross-references: Josh 1:4 · Josh 9:1 · Josh 15:12 · Josh 15:47 · Josh 23:4 · Ezek 47:10 · +2 more

7“‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.Cross-references: Num 33:37 · Num 34:3 · Num 34:6 · Num 34:9 · Ezek 47:15

8From Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the border shall pass by Zedad.Cross-references: Num 13:21 · Josh 13:5 · 2Sam 8:9 · 2Ki 14:25 · Jer 39:5 · Ezek 47:15

9Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north border.Cross-references: Ezek 47:17

10“‘You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

11The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.Cross-references: Deut 3:17 · Josh 11:2 · Josh 13:27 · Josh 19:35 · 2Ki 23:33 · 2Ki 25:6 · +6 more

12The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’”Cross-references: Gen 13:10 · Gen 14:3 · Gen 19:24 · Num 34:3

13Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;Cross-references: Num 34:1 · Josh 14:1

14for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers’ houses, the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.Cross-references: Num 32:23 · Num 32:33 · Deut 3:12 · Josh 13:8 · Josh 14:2

15The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”Cross-references: Num 32:32

16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

17“These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.Cross-references: Num 13:8 · Num 13:16 · Josh 14:1 · Josh 19:51

18You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.Cross-references: Num 1:4

19These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.Cross-references: Gen 29:35 · Num 13:30 · Num 14:6 · Num 14:24 · Num 14:30 · Num 14:38 · +2 more

20Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.Cross-references: Gen 49:5

21Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.Cross-references: Gen 49:27 · Ps 68:27

22Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.

23Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

24Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.

25Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

26Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.

27Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

28Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”

29These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.Cross-references: Num 34:18 · Josh 19:51