Numbers 34

¹The Lord said to Moses, ²“Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan in its full extent), ³your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom, and your southern boundary shall be from the end of the Salt Sea on the east; ⁴and your boundary shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabʹbim, and cross to Zin, and its end shall be south of Kaʹdesh-barʹnea; then it shall go on to Haʹzar-adʹdar, and pass along to Azmon; ⁵and the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea.

⁶“For the western boundary, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast; this shall be your western boundary.

⁷“This shall be your northern boundary: from the Great Sea you shall mark out your line to Mount Hor; ⁸from Mount Hor you shall mark it out to the entrance of Hamath, and the end of the boundary shall be at Zedad; ⁹then the boundary shall extend to Ziphron, and its end shall be at Hazar-enan; this shall be your northern boundary.

¹⁰“You shall mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar-enan to Shepham; ¹¹and the boundary shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Aʹin; and the boundary shall go down, and reach to the shoulder of the sea of Chinʹnereth on the east; ¹²and the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and its end shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its boundaries all round.”

¹³Moses commanded the people of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe; ¹⁴for the tribe of the sons of Reuben by fathers’ houses and the tribe of the sons of Gad by their fathers’ houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasʹseh; ¹⁵the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”

¹⁶The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁷“These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleaʹzar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun. ¹⁸You shall take one leader of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. ¹⁹These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunʹneh. ²⁰Of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuʹel the son of Ammiʹhud. ²¹Of the tribe of Benjamin, Eliʹdad the son of Chislon. ²²Of the tribe of the sons of Dan a leader, Bukki the son of Jogli. ²³Of the sons of Joseph: of the tribe of the sons of Manasʹseh a leader, Hanʹniel the son of Ephod. ²⁴And of the tribe of the sons of Eʹphraim a leader, Kemuʹel the son of Shiphtan. ²⁵Of the tribe of the sons of Zebʹulun a leader, Eli-zaʹphan the son of Parnach. ²⁶Of the tribe of the sons of Isʹsachar a leader, Palʹtiel the son of Azzan. ²⁷And of the tribe of the sons of Asher a leader, Ahiʹhud the son of Sheloʹmi. ²⁸Of the tribe of the sons of Naphʹtali a leader, Pedahʹel the son of Ammiʹhud. ²⁹These are the men whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan.”