Numbers 34

Numbers 34:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said

Numbers 34:2 “Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that will fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders),

Numbers 34:3 your south side will be from the open country of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.

Numbers 34:4 And your border will turn south of the ascent of Scorpions, and cross to Zin, and its limit will be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon.

Numbers 34:5 And the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit will be at the sea.

Numbers 34:6 “For the western border, you will have the Great Sea and its coast. This will be your western border.

Numbers 34:7 “This will be your northern border: from the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor.

Numbers 34:8 From Mount Hor you will draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border will be at Zedad.

Numbers 34:9 Then the border will extend to Ziphron, and its limit will be at Hazar-enan. This will be your northern border.

Numbers 34:10 “You will draw a line for your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham.

Numbers 34:11 And the border will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border will go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.

Numbers 34:12 And the border will go down to the Jordan, and its limit will be at the Salt Sea. This will be your land as defined by its borders all around.”

Numbers 34:13 Moses commanded the people of Israel, and this is what he said, “This is the land that you will inherit by lot, which Yahveh has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.

Numbers 34:14 Because 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.

Numbers 34:15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

Numbers 34:16 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Numbers 34:17 “These are the names of the men who will divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 34:18 You will take one leader from every tribe to divide the land for inheritance.

Numbers 34:19 These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

Numbers 34:20 Of the tribe of the people of Simeon, Shemuel, the son of Ammihud.

Numbers 34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, the son of Chislon.

Numbers 34:22 Of the tribe of the people of Dan, a leader, Bukki, the son of Jogli.

Numbers 34:23 Of the people of Joseph: of the tribe of the people of Manasseh a leader, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

Numbers 34:24 And of the tribe of the people of Ephraim a leader, Kemuel, the son of Shiphtan.

Numbers 34:25 Of the tribe of the people of Zebulun, a leader, Elizaphan, the son of Parnach.

Numbers 34:26 Of the tribe of the people of Issachar, a leader, Paltiel, the son of Azzan.

Numbers 34:27 And of the tribe of the people of Asher a leader, Ahihud, the son of Shelomi.

Numbers 34:28 Of the tribe of the people of Naphtali, a leader, Pedahel, the son of Ammihud.

Numbers 34:29 These are the men whom Yahveh commanded to divide the inheritance for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan.”

Numbers 34 quotes:

“The Lord having in the previous chapter given the Israelites a strict charge respecting their treatment of the conquered nations, proceeds in the present to fix and determine the boundaries of the land promised ages before to Abraham and his seed.”

Bush, George. Notes Critical and Practical on the Book of Numbers. New York: [publisher not identified], 1858. p. 462.

“It was important for the Israelites to be taught that, whilst divinely commissioned to exterminate the idolatrous inhabitants of the land of Canaan, they had no commission to make aggressive wars upon the surrounding nations which were eyond the confines of the land which was allotted to them.”

Ellicott, C. J. The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers. London: Cassell & Co, 1850. p. 209.

“The lawgiver now passes in the most logical method, to define the limits of the land which Israel should regard as its inheritance, so that it should not seek to go out beyond these limits and found a world empire (2 Sam. xxiv. ), nor rest within these boundaries until it has acquired and occupied all the territory within them. The foundation for this direction is contained in Gen. XV. 18-21 ; Ex. xxiii, 31—and their actual application of them is related in Josh. xiii. sqq. It is assumed that the east Jordan region belongs within these limits.”

Lange, Johann Peter, and Samuel T. Lowrie. Numbers: Or, the Fourth Book of Moses. New York: C. Scribner, 1899. p. 181.