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Nombres 34:5

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5 D'Atsmon la frontière tournera vers le torrent d'Égypte, et aboutira à la mer.

Nombres 34:5 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 34:5

And the border shall fetch a compass
Not go on in a straight line, but turn about:

from Azmon unto the river of Egypt;
the river Nile, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; but Aben Ezra seems to deny that that river is meant: and some think that Rhinocolura, which flows into the Mediterranean sea, is meant; or the "valley of Egypt", Casiotis, which divided Judea from Egypt, as follows:

and the goings out of it;
not of the river, but of the border:

shall be at the sea;
the above sea, called in the next verse the great sea; all the Targums render it to the west.

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Nombres 34:5 In-Context

3 La région du Midi sera à vous depuis le désert de Tsin, le long d'Édom. Ainsi votre frontière du Midi partira du bout de la mer Salée, vers l'Orient.
4 Et cette frontière tournera au midi de la montée d'Akrabbim, passera vers Tsin, et aboutira au midi de Kadès-Barnéa; puis elle sortira vers Hatsar-Addar, et passera vers Atsmon.
5 D'Atsmon la frontière tournera vers le torrent d'Égypte, et aboutira à la mer.
6 Et quant à la frontière d'Occident, vous aurez la grande mer pour limite; ce sera votre frontière occidentale.
7 Et voici quelle sera votre frontière du Nord: depuis la grande mer vous marquerez pour vos limites la montagne de Hor;
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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