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1 The LORD said to Moses:
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God spoke to Moses:
2 Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that will fall to you as an inheritance. The land of Canaan according to its boundaries:
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"Command the People of Israel. Tell them: When you enter Canaan, these are the borders of the land you are getting as an inheritance:
3 Your southern boundary extends from the Zin desert alongside Edom. Your southern border extends from the edge of the Dead Sea on the east.
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"Your southern border will take in some of the Wilderness of Zin where it touches Edom. It starts in the east at the Dead Sea,
4 Your border will turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim and cross toward Zin. Its limit will be south of Kadesh-barnea. It will go out to Hazar-addar and cross toward Azmon.
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curves south of Scorpion Pass and on to Zin, continues south of Kadesh Barnea, then to Hazar Addar and on to Azmon,
5 The border will then turn from Azmon to the Egypt ravine. Its limit will be at the Mediterranean Sea.
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where it takes a turn to the northwest to the Brook of Egypt and on to the Mediterranean Sea.
6 Your western border will be the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your western border.
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"Your western border will be the Mediterranean Sea.
7 This will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea you will mark out your boundary to Mount Hor.
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"Your northern border runs on a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor,
8 From Mount Hor you will mark out your boundary to Lebo-hamath. The limit of the border will be Zedad.
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and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath, connects to Zedad,
9 The border will go out to Ziphron. Its limit will be Hazar-enan. This will be your northern border.
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continues to Ziphron, and ends at Hazar Enan. This is your northern border.
10 You will mark out your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham.
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"Your eastern border runs on a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
11 The border will descend from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. The border will go down and meet the eastern slope of the Galilee Sea.
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The border goes south from Shepham to Riblah to the east of Ain, and continues along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee.
12 The border will descend to the Jordan. Its limit will be the Dead Sea.
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The border then follows the Jordan River and ends at the Dead Sea. "This is your land with its four borders."
13 This will be your land with its borders all around.Moses commanded the Israelites: This is the land that you will inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes,
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Moses then commanded the People of Israel: "This is the land: Divide up the inheritance by lot. God has ordered it to be given to the nine and a half tribes.
14 because the tribe of Reuben by their households and the tribe of Gad by their households, and half the tribe of Manasseh have taken their inheritance.
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The tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance;
15 The two and a half tribes have taken their inheritance across the Jordan at Jericho toward the east.
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the two tribes and the half-tribe got their inheritance east of Jordan-Jericho, facing the sunrise."
16 The LORD spoke to Moses:
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God spoke to Moses:
17 These are the names of the men who will assign the inheritance of the land: Eleazar the priest and Joshua, Nun's son.
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"These are the men who will be in charge of distributing the inheritance of the land: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
18 You will also take one chief from each tribe to apportion the land.
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Assign one leader from each tribe to help them in distributing the land.
19 These are the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb, Jephunneh's son;
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Assign these: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;
20 from the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel, Ammihud's son;
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Shemuel son of Ammihud from the tribe of Simeon;
21 from the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, Chislon's son;
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Elidad son of Kislon from the tribe of Benjamin;
22 from the tribe of the Danites, a chief, Bukki, Jogli's son;
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Bukki son of Jogli, leader from the tribe of Dan;
23 from Joseph's descendants: of the tribe of the Manassites, a chief, Hanniel, Ephod's son;
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Hanniel son of Ephod, leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph;
24 and from the tribe of the Ephraimites, a chief, Kemuel, Shiphtan's son;
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Kemuel son of Shiphtan, leader from the tribe of Ephraim son of Joseph;
25 from the tribe of the Zebulunites, a chief, Elizaphan, Parnach's son;
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Elizaphan son of Parnach, leader from the tribe of Zebulun;
26 from the tribe of the Issacharites, a chief, Paltiel, Azzan's son;
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Paltiel son of Azzan, leader from the tribe of Issachar;
27 from the tribe of the Asherites, a chief, Ahihud, Shelomi's son;
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Ahihud son of Shelomi, leader from the tribe of Asher;
28 from the tribe of the Naphtalites, a chief, Pedahel, Ammihud's son.
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Pedahel son of Ammihud, leader from the tribe of Naphtali."
29 These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to assign the inheritance of the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
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These are the men God commanded to hand out the assignments of land-inheritance to the People of Israel in the country of Canaan.
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