Numbers 34

Boundaries of the land of Canaan

¹The LORD said to Moses:

²Command 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:

³Your southern boundary extends from the Zin desert alongside Edom. Your southern border extends from the edge of the Dead Sea on the east.

⁴Your 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.

⁵The border will then turn from Azmon to the Egypt ravine. Its limit will be at the Mediterranean Sea.

⁶Your western border will be the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your western border.

⁷This will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea you will mark out your boundary to Mount Hor.

⁸From Mount Hor you will mark out your boundary to Lebo-hamath. The limit of the border will be Zedad.

⁹The border will go out to Ziphron. Its limit will be Hazar-enan. This will be your northern border.

¹⁰You will mark out your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham.

¹¹The 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.

¹²The border will descend to the Jordan. Its limit will be the Dead Sea.

This will be your land with its borders all around.

¹³Moses 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,

¹⁴because 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.

¹⁵The two and a half tribes have taken their inheritance across the Jordan at Jericho toward the east.

Appointment of leaders to assign the inheritance

¹⁶The LORD spoke to Moses:

¹⁷These are the names of the men who will assign the inheritance of the land: Eleazar the priest and Joshua, Nun’s son.

¹⁸You will also take one chief from each tribe to apportion the land.

¹⁹These are the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb, Jephunneh’s son;

²⁰from the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel, Ammihud’s son;

²¹from the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, Chislon’s son;

²²from the tribe of the Danites, a chief, Bukki, Jogli’s son;

²³from Joseph’s descendants: of the tribe of the Manassites, a chief, Hanniel, Ephod’s son;

²⁴and from the tribe of the Ephraimites, a chief, Kemuel, Shiphtan’s son;

²⁵from the tribe of the Zebulunites, a chief, Elizaphan, Parnach’s son;

²⁶from the tribe of the Issacharites, a chief, Paltiel, Azzan’s son;

²⁷from the tribe of the Asherites, a chief, Ahihud, Shelomi’s son;

²⁸from the tribe of the Naphtalites, a chief, Pedahel, Ammihud’s son.

²⁹These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to assign the inheritance of the Israelites in the land of Canaan.