< Numbers 34 >
1 And the Lord said to Moses,
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
2 Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits, )
“Tell this to the Israeli people: You will soon enter Canaan land, and it will become yours. These will be the borders of the land:
3 Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of Zin by the side of Edom, and your limit on the south will be from the east end of the Salt Sea,
On the south you will receive part of the Zin Desert, near the border of the Edom [region]. On the east side, the border will start at the south end of the Dead Sea.
4 And round to the south of the slope of Akrabbim, and on to Zin: and its direction will be south of Kadesh-barnea, and it will go as far as Hazar-addar and on to Azmon:
It will extend to a little south of the Scorpion Pass, and extend [west] through [the] Zin [Desert] and south of Kadesh-Barnea. From there it will extend to Hazar Addar and from there to Azmon.
5 And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea.
From Azmon it will extend [west] to the dry riverbed [at the border] of Egypt and then to the [Mediterranean] Sea.
6 And for your limit on the west you will have the Great Sea and its edge: this will be your limit on the west.
The border on the west will be the Mediterranean Sea.
7 And your limit on the north will be the line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor:
The border on the north will start from the Mediterranean Sea and extend [east] to Hor Mountain.
8 And from Mount Hor the line will go in the direction of Hamath; the farthest point of it will be at Zedad:
From there it will extend to Lebo-Hamath and then to Zedad.
9 And the limit will go on to Ziphron, with its farthest point at Hazar-enan: this will be your limit on the north.
From there the border will extend to Ziphron, and it will end at Hazar-Enan.
10 And on the east, your limit will be marked out from Hazar-enan to Shepham,
The border on the east will start at Hazar-Enan and extend [south] to Shepham.
11 Going down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain, and on as far as the east side of the sea of Chinnereth:
From there it will extend east of Ain to Riblah and then along the hills that are east of Galilee Lake.
12 And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the land inside these limits will be yours.
Then the border will extend south along the Jordan [River] and end at the Dead Sea. Those will be the borders around your country.”
13 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel saying, This is the land which is to be your heritage, by the decision of the Lord, which by the Lord's order is to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe:
So Moses/I [told all that] to the Israeli people. Then he/I said to them, “That is the land that you will receive. You must throw (lots/stones that have been marked) to decide which area will go to each of the nine and a half tribes, because Yahweh has commanded that it should be divided among them.
14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben, by their fathers' families, and the tribe of the children of Gad, by their fathers' families, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, have been given their heritage:
The tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh have already received the land in which they will live.
15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have been given their heritage on the other side of Jordan at Jericho, on the east looking to the dawn.
They have received land on the east side of the Jordan [River], across from Jericho.”
16 And the Lord said to Moses,
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me,
17 These are the names of the men who are to make the distribution of the land among you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun.
“These are the men who will divide the land: First, Eleazar and Joshua.
18 And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land.
But one leader [from each of the twelve tribes will help them divide the land].
19 And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
“From the tribe of Judah, appoint Jephunneh’s son Caleb. From the tribe of Simeon appoint Ammihud’s son Shemuel. From the tribe of Benjamin appoint Kislon’s son Elidad. From the tribe of Dan appoint Jogli’s son Bukki. From the tribe of Manasseh appoint Ephod’s son Hanniel. From the tribe of Ephraim appoint Shiphtan’s son Kemuel. From the tribe of Zebulun appoint Parnach’s son Elizaphan. From the tribe of Issachar appoint Azzan’s son Paltiel. From the tribe of Asher appoint Shelomi’s son Ahihud. From the tribe of Naphtali appoint Ammihud’s son Pedahel.”
20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel, the son of Ammihud.
21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, the son of Chislon.
22 And of the tribe of the children of Dan, a chief, Bukki, the son of Jogli.
23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh, a chief, Hanniel, the son of Ephod:
24 And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, a chief, Kemuel, the son of Shiphtan.
25 And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, a chief, Elizaphan, the son of Parnach.
26 And of the tribe of the children of Issachar, a chief, Paltiel, the son of Azzan.
27 And of the tribe of the children of Asher, a chief, Ahihud, the son of Shelomi.
28 And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a chief, Pedahel, the son of Ammihud.
29 These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Yahweh commanded that all those were the men who should divide the Canaan region among the Israeli people.