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Numbers 34:1

And the Lord said to Moses,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zin;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Canaan;   Egypt;   Kadesh-barnea;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Land (of Israel);   Easton Bible Dictionary - Palestine;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canaan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;   Zin;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Moses, the Man of God;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bemidbar Rabbah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Lexham English Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
English Standard Version
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord said to Moses,
New English Translation
Then the Lord spoke to Moses:
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord told Moses
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai told Moshe
Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord spoke to Moses. He said,
George Lamsa Translation
AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to Moses,
Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Annd the LORDE spake vnto Moses, and sayde:
American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises,
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New King James Version
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
New Living Translation
Then the Lord said to Moses,
New Life Bible
Then the Lord said to Moses,
New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Moses,
THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses: "Command the People of Israel. Tell them, When you enter Canaan, these are the borders of the land you are getting as an inheritance:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lord said to Moses, 2 Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,) 3 Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of Zin by the side of Edom, and your limit on the south will be from the east end of the Salt Sea, 4 And round to the south of the slope of Akrabbim, and on to Zin: and its direction will be south of Kadesh-barnea, and it will go as far as Hazar-addar and on to Azmon: 5 And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea. 6 And for your limit on the west you will have the Great Sea and its edge: this will be your limit on the west. 7 And your limit on the north will be the line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor: 8 And from Mount Hor the line will go in the direction of Hamath; the farthest point of it will be at Zedad: 9 And the limit will go on to Ziphron, with its farthest point at Hazar-enan: this will be your limit on the north. 10 And on the east, your limit will be marked out from Hazar-enan to Shepham,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Numbers 34:13 - This is the land Habakkuk 3:6 - and measured

Cross-References

Genesis 26:34
And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Genesis 27:46
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?
Genesis 28:6
So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;
Genesis 30:13
And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.
Genesis 30:21
After that she had a daughter, to whom she gave the name Dinah.
Genesis 46:15
All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number.
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.
1 Timothy 5:13
And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.
Titus 2:5
To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... At the same time that he ordered him to direct the children of Israel, when they had passed over Jordan, to drive out the inhabitants of the land of Canaan, and divide their land among them, he proceeded to give the limits and boundaries of the land:

saying; as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXXIV

The land of Canaan is described, 1, 2.

The south quarter, 3-5.

The western border, 6.

The north border, 7-9.

The east border, 10-12.

This land to be divided by lot among the nine tribes and half,

13;

two tribes and half, Reuben and Gad, and the half of Manasseh,

having already got their inheritance on the east side of Jordan,

14, 15.

Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, to assist in dividing the land,

16, 17;

and with them a chief out of every tribe, 18.

The names of the twelve chiefs, 19-29.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXIV


 
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