Numbers 34
1 Yahweh said to Moses/me,
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
2 “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:
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When all of you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof: )
3 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.
Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the utmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
4 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.
And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:
5 From Azmon it will extend [west] to the dry riverbed [at the border] of Egypt and then to the [Mediterranean] Sea.
And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the activities out of it shall be at the sea.
6 The border on the west will be the Mediterranean Sea.
And as for the western border, all of you shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
7 The border on the north will start from the Mediterranean Sea and extend [east] to Hor Mountain.
And this shall be your north border: from the great sea all of you shall point out for you mount Hor:
8 From there it will extend to Lebo-Hamath and then to Zedad.
From mount Hor all of you shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the activities out of the border shall be to Zedad:
9 From there the border will extend to Ziphron, and it will end at Hazar-Enan.
And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the activities out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
10 The border on the east will start at Hazar-Enan and extend [south] to Shepham.
And all of you shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham:
11 From there it will extend east of Ain to Riblah and then along the hills that are east of Galilee Lake.
And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
12 Then the border will extend south along the Jordan [River] and end at the Dead Sea. Those will be the borders around your country.”
And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the activities out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
13 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.
And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which all of you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
14 The tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh have already received the land in which they will live.
For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:
15 They have received land on the east side of the Jordan [River], across from Jericho.”
The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
16 Then Yahweh said to Moses/me,
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
17 “These are the men who will divide the land: First, Eleazar and Joshua.
These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
18 But one leader [from each of the twelve tribes will help them divide the land].
And all of you shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.
19 “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.”
And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
29 Yahweh commanded that all those were the men who should divide the Canaan region among the Israeli people.
These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
