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Brenton's Septuagint

Numbers 34:12

And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the termination shall be the salt sea; this shall be your land and its borders round about.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Canaanites;   Dead Sea;   Salt;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;   Jordan, the River;   Salt;   Sea, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Canaan;   Dead sea;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Government;   Land (of Israel);   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dead Sea;   Palestine;   Sea, the;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canaan;   Sea, the Salt;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jordan;   Numbers, Book of;   Zin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Salt Sea;   Sea;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jordan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jor'dan;   Sea, the Salt,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Going;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jordan, the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and the border shall go down to the Yarden, and the goings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders of it round about.
King James Version
And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
Lexham English Bible
The boundary will go down to the Jordan, and its limits will be at the Salt Sea. This will be your land according to its boundaries all around.'"
English Standard Version
And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around."
New Century Version
Then the border will go down along the Jordan River and end at the Dead Sea. "‘These are the borders around your country.'"
New English Translation
Then the border will continue down the Jordan River and its direction will be to the Salt Sea. This will be your land by its borders that surround it.'"
Amplified Bible
and the [eastern] boundary shall go down to the Jordan [River], and its limit shall be at the Salt (Dead) Sea. This shall be your land according to its boundaries all around.'"
New American Standard Bible
'And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its termination shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders on all sides.'"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also that border shall goe downe to Iorden, & leaue at the salt Sea. this shalbe your land with the coastes thereof round about.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its termination shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders all around.'"
Contemporary English Version
then follow the Jordan River down to the north end of the Dead Sea. The land within those four borders will belong to you.
Complete Jewish Bible
From there it goes down the Yarden River till it flows into the Dead Sea. These will be the borders of your land."
Darby Translation
and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and shall end at the salt sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the border will continue along the Jordan River. It will end at the Dead Sea. These are the borders around your country."
George Lamsa Translation
And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limits shall be at the salt sea; this shall be your land with the borders thereof round about.
Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
Then the border will go down to the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. This will be your land defined by its borders on all sides.”
Literal Translation
And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the end of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders all around.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and come downe by Iordane, so yt the goynge out of it be the Salt see. Let this be youre londe with the borders therof rounde aboute.
American Standard Version
and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.
Bible in Basic English
And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the land inside these limits will be yours.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And then go downe along by Iordane, and leaue at the salt sea: And this shalbe your land, with the coastes therof rounde about.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea; this shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.'
King James Version (1611)
And the border shall goe downe to Iordane, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coastes thereof round about.
English Revised Version
and the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea: this shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and tho schulen strecche forth `til to Jordan, and at the laste tho schulen be closid with the salteste see. Ye schulen haue this lond bi hise coostis `in cumpas.
Young's Literal Translation
and the border hath gone down to the Jordan, and its outgoings have been at the Salt Sea; this is for you the land by its borders round about.'
Update Bible Version
and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the limits of it shall be at the salt sea: This shall be your land with its limits on all sides.
World English Bible
and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders of it round about.
New King James Version
the border shall go down along the Jordan, and it shall end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries."'
New Living Translation
and then along the Jordan River to the Dead Sea. These are the boundaries of your land."
New Life Bible
It will go down to the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be the sides all around your land.'"
New Revised Standard
and the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and its end shall be at the Dead Sea. This shall be your land with its boundaries all around.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then shall the boundary go down towards the Jordan, and the extension thereof be to the salt sea. This shall be your land by the boundaries thereof round about.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the last shall be closed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its borders round about.
Revised Standard Version
and 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."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'And the border shall go down to the Jordan and its termination shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders all around.'"

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Charge the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are entering into the land of Chanaan: it shall be to you for an inheritance, the land of Chanaan with its boundaries. 3 And your southern side shall be from the wilderness of Sin to the border of Edom, and your border southward shall extend on the side of the salt sea eastward. 4 And your border shall go round you from the south to the ascent of Acrabin, and shall proceed by Ennac, and the going forth of it shall be southward to Cades Barne, and it shall go forth to the village of Arad, and shall proceed by Asemona. 5 And the border shall compass from Asemona to the river of Egypt, and the sea shall be the termination. 6 And ye shall have your border on the west, the great sea shall be the boundary: this shall be to you the border on the west. 7 And this shall be your northern border; from the great sea ye shall measure to yourselves, by the side of the mountain. 8 And ye shall measure to yourselves the mountain from mount Hor at the entering in to Emath, and the termination of it shall be the coasts of Saradac. 9 And the border shall go out to Dephrona, and its termination shall be at Arsenain; this shall be your border from the north. 10 And ye shall measure to yourselves the eastern border from Arsenain to Sepphamar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the salt sea: Numbers 34:3, Genesis 13:10, Genesis 14:3, Genesis 19:24-26

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:15 - General Deuteronomy 3:17 - the sea Joshua 15:5 - General 2 Chronicles 20:2 - beyond the sea

Cross-References

Genesis 24:53
And the servant having brought forth jewels of silver and gold and raiment, gave them to Rebecca, and gave gifts to her brother, and to her mother.
Genesis 29:18
And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve thee seven years for thy younger daughter Rachel.
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years among thy sheep, and thou didst falsely rate my wages for ten lambs.
Genesis 34:16
And we will give our daughters to you, and we will take of your daughters for wives to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will be as one race.
Genesis 34:17
But if ye will not hearken to us to be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart.
Genesis 34:25
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob, Symeon and Levi, Dina’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city securely, and slew every male.
Genesis 34:27
But the sons of Jacob came upon the wounded, and ravaged the city wherein they had defiled Dina their sister.
Genesis 34:28
And their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses they took, and all things whatsoever were in the city, and whatsoever were in the plain.
Genesis 34:29
And they took captive all the persons of them, and all their store, and their wives, and plundered both whatever things there were in the city, and whatever things there were in the houses.
2 Samuel 3:14
And David sent messengers to Jebosthe the son of Saul, saying, Restore me my wife Melchol, whom I took for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the border shall go down to Jordan,.... A well known river to the east of the land of Canaan:

and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea; the sea of Sodom; and though all sea water is generally salt, this was remarkably so, through the great quantity of bitumen and nitre in it; hence it was called Asphaltites; thus as the description of the borders of the land began with the salt sea, Numbers 34:3, it ends with it:

this shall be your land, with the coasts thereof round about: which, according to the Targum of Jonathan, was thus bounded, Rekamgea (or Kadeshbarnea) on the south, Taurus Urnanus (by which he interprets Mount Hor) on the north, the great sea on the west (i.e. the Mediterranean sea), and the salt sea on the east.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shepham, the first point after Hazar-enan, is unknown. The name Riblah is by some read Har-bel, i. e., “the Mountain of Bel;” the Har-baal-Hermon of Judges 3:3. No more striking landmark could be set forth than the summit of Hermon, the southernmost and by far the loftiest peak of the whole Antilibanus range, rising to a height of 10,000 feet, and overtopping every other mountain in the Holy land. Ain, i. e. the fountain, is understood to be the fountain of the Jordan; and it is in the plain at the southwestern foot of Hermon that the two most celebrated sources of that river, those of Daphne and of Paneas, are situate.

The “sea of Chinnereth” is better known by its later name of Gennesaret, which is supposed to be only a corruption of Chinnereth. The border ran parallel to this sea, along the line of hill about 10 miles further east.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 34:12. The border shall go down to Jordan — This river is famous both in the Old and New Testaments. It takes its rise at the foot of Mount Libanus, passes through the sea of Chinnereth or Tiberias, and empties itself into the lake Asphaltites or Dead Sea, from which it has no outlet. In and by it God wrought many miracles. God cut off the waters of this river as he did those of the Red Sea, so that they stood on a heap on each side, and the people passed over on dry ground. Both Elijah and Elisha separated its waters in a miraculous way, 2 Kings 2:8-14. Naaman, the Syrian general, by washing in it at the command of the prophet, was miraculously cured of his leprosy, 2 Kings 5:10-14. In this river John baptized great multitudes of Jews; and in it was CHRIST himself baptized, and the Spirit of God descended upon him, and the voice from heaven proclaimed him the great and only Teacher and Saviour of men, Matthew 3:16-17; Mark 1:5-11.


 
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