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Borders of the land of promise. – Appointment of persons to divide the land into plots. Numbers 34:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Numbers 34:2. give a command to the children of Israel and say to them: when you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that will be your inheritance, the land of Canaan with its borders: Only western Transjordan (Canaan) is delineated; eastern Transjordan was occupied by the tribes of Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh by virtue of the personal permission of Moses (Numbers 32.1). Numbers 34:3. Your southern border will be from the wilderness of Sin, near Edom, and your southern border will be from the end of the Salt Sea on the east. The southern border of the promised land is the Sin (Qing) desert, Idumea, the stream of Egypt (the current water body of Wadi el-Arish), at the mouth of which the ancient city of Rinocolura (the current El-Arish) was built. Numbers 34:6. and your western border will be the great sea: this will be your border to the west; The western border is the Mediterranean Sea. Numbers 34:7. To the north you will have a border: from the great sea you will draw it to Mount Hor, Numbers 34:8. from Mount Hor lead to Hamath, and the borders will be projected to Zedad; Numbers 34:9. from there the border will go to Tsifron, and its protrusions will be to Hatzar-Enan: this will be your northern border; Northern border: Mount Or (in all likelihood one of the hills of Lebanon (LXX and in the Slavic popular name ορος, mountain) and Hamath (a mountain pass and city on the Orontes River, in Kel-Syria, between Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon). Tsedad, according to commentators, is the present Sedad; Tsifron is the present Tsifran. The first is located near the Emath mountain pass, the second - near Damascus. Numbers 34:10. draw your eastern border from Gatsar-Enan to Shepham, Numbers 34:11. from Shepham the border will go to Riblah, on the eastern side of Ain, then the border will go and touch the shores of the Kinneref Sea on the eastern side; Numbers 34:12. and the border will go to the Jordan, and its protrusions will be to the Salt Sea. This will be your land along its borders on all sides. The eastern border is the Jordan River and the Salt (Dead) Sea. Kinneref - Lake Genissaret. For the division of the land into tribes, see Nav. 13–21. You might be interested in: