Numbers 34

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

² ‘Give the sons of Israel this order: “When you go into the land (of Canaan), this is the territory that will be your inheritance. This is the land of Canaan defined by its boundaries.

³ “The southern part of your country will stretch from the wilderness of Zin, on the borders of Edom. Your southern boundary will start on the east at the end of the Salt Sea.

⁴ It will then turn south towards the Ascent of the Scorpions and go by Zin to end in the south at Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go towards Hazar-addar and pass through Azmon.

⁵ From Azmon the boundary will turn towards the wadi of Egypt and end at the Sea.

⁶ “Your seaboard will be the Great Sea; this will be your western boundary.

⁷ “This will be your northern boundary. You will draw a line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor,

⁸ then from Mount Hor you will draw a line to the Pass of Hamath, and the boundary will end at Zedad.

⁹ From there it will go on to Ziphron and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your northern boundary.

¹⁰ “You will then draw your eastern boundary from Hazar-enan to Shepham.

¹¹ The boundary will go down from Shepham towards Riblah on the east side of Am. Further down it will keep to the eastern shore of the Sea of Chinnereth[*a].

¹² The frontier will then follow the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. “This will be your land with the boundaries surrounding it.”‘

¹³ Moses then laid this charge on the sons of Israel: ‘This is the land you are to apportion by lot, which Yahweh has ordered to be made over to the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

¹⁴ The tribe of the sons of Reuben with its patriarchal Houses and the tribe of the sons of Gad with its patriarchal Houses have already been given their heritage; the half-tribe of Manasseh has also been given its heritage.

¹⁵ These two tribes and the half-tribe have been given their heritage beyond the Jordan opposite Jericho, to the east, towards the sunrise.

¹⁶ Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:

¹⁷ ‘These are the names of those who will share out the land: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun,

¹⁸ and you will take one leader from each tribe to share out the land.

¹⁹ Here are the names of these men: For the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

²⁰ for the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel son of Ammihud;

²¹ for the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon;

²² for the tribe of the sons of Dan, the leader Bukki son of Jogli;

²³ for the sons of Joseph: for the tribe of Manasseh, the leader Hanniel son of Ephod;

²⁴ and for the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, the leader Kemuel son of Shiphtan;

²⁵ for the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, the leader Elizaphan son of Parnach;

²⁶ for the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the leader Paltiel son of Azzan;

²⁷ for the tribe of the sons of Asher, the leader Ahihud son of Shelomi;

²⁸ for the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, the leader Pedahel son of Ammihud.’

²⁹ These are the men whom Yahweh ordered to divide the land of Canaan among the sons of Israel.