Numbers 34:5-15

5 where it will turn, join the Wadi of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.

6 “ ‘Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.

7 “ ‘For your northern boundary, run a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor

8 and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to Zedad,

9 continue to Ziphron and end at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary on the north.

10 “ ‘For your eastern boundary, run a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

11 The boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee.^[a]

12 Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. “ ‘This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side.’ ”

13 Moses commanded the Israelites: “Assign this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has ordered that it be given to the nine-and-a-half tribes,

14 because the families of the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.

15 These two-and-a-half tribes have received their inheritance east of the Jordan across from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

Numbers 34:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 34

In this chapter the bounds and borders of the land Canaan are described, according to the direction of the Lord to Moses, Nu 34:1,2, the south border, Nu 34:3-5, the western border, Nu 34:6, the north border, Nu 34:7-9, the east border, Nu 34:10-12, which is ordered to be divided by lot to the nine tribes and a half, two tribes and a half having received their inheritance on the other side Jordan, Nu 34:13-15, and the persons are nominated to divide the land, Eleazar and Joshua, with one prince out of every tribe, and who are mentioned by name, Nu 34:16-29.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 15:18; Joshua 15:4
• 2. Joshua 1:4; Joshua 9:1; Joshua 15:12,47; Joshua 23:4; Ezekiel 47:10,15; Ezekiel 48:28
• 3. Ezekiel 47:19-20
• 4. Ezekiel 47:15-17
• 5. S Numbers 20:22
• 6. Numbers 13:21; Joshua 13:5
• 7. Joshua 15:5
• 8. 2 Kings 23:33; 2 Kings 25:6,21; Jeremiah 39:5; Jeremiah 52:9,27
• 9. Joshua 15:32; Joshua 21:16; 1 Chronicles 4:32
• 10. Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 11:2; Joshua 13:27
• 11. S Leviticus 16:8; Joshua 18:10; Micah 2:5
• 12. Joshua 13:6; Joshua 14:1-5; Isaiah 49:8; Isaiah 65:9; Ezekiel 45:1
• 13. Numbers 32:19; Deuteronomy 33:21; Numbers 32:33; Joshua 14:3

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "Kinnereth"