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Bishop's Bible

Numbers 34:1

And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:

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,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses,
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 Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: 2 Commaunde the children of Israel, and say vnto them: When ye come into the lande of Chanaan, this is the lande that shall fall vnto your inheritaunce, [euen] the lande of Chanaan with her coastes. 3 And your south quarter shalbe from the wyldernesse Zin, along by the coast of Edom, so that your south quarter reache vpon the syde of the salt sea eastwarde. 4 And fet a compasse from the south vp to Acrabim, and Recahe to Zinna: And go out fro the south to Cades Barnea, and go out also to Hazar Adar, and go along to Azmon. 5 And fet a compasse agayne from Azmon, vnto the riuer of Egypt, and shall go out at the sea. 6 And let your west quarter be the great sea, let the same sea be your west coast. 7 And this shalbe your north quarter: ye shall compasse your border from the great sea, vnto mount Hor. 8 And from mount Hor, ye shall describe your border, tyll it come vnto Hemath, & the end of the coast shalbe at Zedada. 9 And the coast shall reache out to Ziphron, and go out at Hazar Enan: This shalbe your north quarter. 10 And ye shall describe your east quarter from Hazar Enan to Sepham.

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
Esau was fourtie yere olde, & he toke a wyfe [called] Iudith, the daughter of Beeri an Hethite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon, an Hethite [also.]
Genesis 27:46
And Rebecca spake to Isahac: I am weery of my lyfe for the daughters of Heth. Yf Iacob take a wyfe of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the lande, what good shall my lyfe do me?
Genesis 28:6
When Esau sawe that Isahac had blessed Iacob, and sent hym to Mesopotamia to fet hym a wyfe from thence, and that as he blessed him, he gaue him a charge, saying, thou shalt not take a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan:
Genesis 30:13
Then saide Lea: happy am I, for the daughters wyll call me blessed: and called his name Aser.
Genesis 30:21
After that, she bare a daughter, and called her name Dina.
Genesis 46:15
These be the children of Lea, whiche she bare vnto Iacob in Mesopotamia, with his daughter Dina. All the soules of his sonnes and daughters, [make] thirtie and three.
Jeremiah 2:36
Why gaddest thou so much hither and thither, to chaunge thy wayes? for thou shalt be confounded aswell of Egypt as thou wast of the Assyrians.
1 Timothy 5:13
They learne to wander about from house to house idle: yea not idle only, but also tatlers and busybodies, speakyng thynges which are not comely.
Titus 2:5
(To be) discrete, chaste, house kepers, good, obedient vnto their owne husbandes, that the worde of God be not blasphemed.

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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