Numbers 34:12

12 Then the border goes along the Jordan River so that it ends at the Dead Sea. "This will be your land and the borders around it."

Numbers 34:12 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 34:12

And the border shall go down to Jordan
A well known river to the east of the land of Canaan:

and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea;
the sea of Sodom; and though all sea water is generally salt, this was remarkably so, through the great quantity of bitumen and nitre in it; hence it was called Asphaltites; thus as the description of the borders of the land began with the salt sea, ( Numbers 34:3 ) , it ends with it:

this shall be your land, with the coasts thereof round about:
which, according to the Targum of Jonathan, was thus bounded, Rekamgea (or Kadeshbarnea) on the south, Taurus Urnanus (by which he interprets Mount Hor) on the north, the great sea on the west (i.e. the Mediterranean sea), and the salt sea on the east.

Numbers 34:12 In-Context

10 "The eastern border extends from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

11 From Shepham the border goes down to Riblah, east of Ain, and continues along the eastern slope of the Sea of Galilee.

12 Then the border goes along the Jordan River so that it ends at the Dead Sea. "This will be your land and the borders around it."

13 Moses commanded the Israelites, "This is the land you will divide by drawing lots. The LORD has commanded that this land will be given to the nine-and-a-half tribes.

14 The households from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh have already received their land.