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JPS Old Testament

Numbers 34:1

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, 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,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, 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 spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Command the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land of Canaan, this shall be the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof. 3 Thus your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin close by the side of Edom, and your south border shall begin at the end of the Salt Sea eastward; 4 and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out thereof shall be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon; 5 and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the Brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Sea. 6 And for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your west border. 7 And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea ye shall mark out your line unto mount Hor; 8 from mount Hor ye shall mark out a line unto the entrance to Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; 9 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan; this shall be your north border. 10 And ye shall mark out your line for the east border 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 to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 27:46
And Rebekah said to Isaac: 'I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?'
Genesis 28:6
Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying: 'Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan';
Genesis 30:13
And Leah said: 'Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy.' And she called his name Asher.
Genesis 30:21
And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
Genesis 46:15
These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore unto Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
Jeremiah 2:36
How greatly dost thou cheapen thyself to change thy way? Thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Asshur.

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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