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The Southern Border of the Land

34 [a] Then the Lord spoke to Moses: “Give these instructions[b] to the Israelites, and tell them: ‘When you enter Canaan, the land that has been assigned to you as an inheritance,[c] the land of Canaan with its borders, your southern border[d] will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the Edomite border, and your southern border will run eastward to the extremity of the Salt Sea,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 34:1 sn This chapter falls into several sections: the south (vv. 1-5), the west (v. 6), the north (vv. 7-9), the east (vv. 10-15), and then a list of appointed officials (vv. 16-29).
  2. Numbers 34:2 tn Or “command.”
  3. Numbers 34:2 tn Heb “this is the land that will fall to you as an inheritance.”
  4. Numbers 34:3 tn The expression refers to the corner or extremity of the Negev, the South.