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JPS Old Testament

Numbers 34:5

and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the Brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Sea.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Azmon;   Canaanites;   Egypt;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   River;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Canaan;   Egypt;   Kadesh-barnea;   Zin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Government;   Land (of Israel);   Easton Bible Dictionary - Brook;   Palestine;   River of Egypt;   Stream of Egypt;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Azmon;   Canaan;   River of Egypt;   Shihor of Egypt;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Brook of Egypt;   Valley;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Compass;   Egypt, River;   Numbers, Book of;   Zin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - River ;   King James Dictionary - Going;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Azmon ;   Canaan, Land of ;   River of Egypt;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Az'mon;   River of Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Azmon;   Brook of Egypt, the;   Compass;   Fetch;   Going;   Mediterranean Sea;   Outgoing;   River;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Brook;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tamar;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and the border shall turn about from `Atzmon to the brook of Mitzrayim, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
King James Version
And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
Lexham English Bible
The boundary will turn from Azmon to the valley of Egypt, and its limits will be to the sea.
English Standard Version
And the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit shall be at the sea.
New Century Version
From Azmon it will go to the brook of Egypt, and it will end at the Mediterranean Sea.
New English Translation
There the border will turn from Azmon to the Stream of Egypt, and then its direction is to the sea.
Amplified Bible
'Then the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt (Wadi el-arish), and its limit shall be at the [Mediterranean] Sea.
New American Standard Bible
'Then the border shall change direction from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the border shall compasse from Azmon vnto the riuer of Egypt, and shall goe out to the Sea.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the border shall turn from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea.
Contemporary English Version
It will run along the Egyptian Gorge and end at the Mediterranean Sea.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then the border turns and goes from ‘Atzmon to the Vadi of Egypt and along it to the Sea.
Darby Translation
And the border shall turn from Azmon unto the torrent of Egypt, and shall end at the sea.
Easy-to-Read Version
From Azmon the border will go to the River of Egypt, and it will end at the Mediterranean Sea.
George Lamsa Translation
And the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and the limits thereof shall be at the sea.
Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
The border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, where it will end at the Mediterranean Sea.
Literal Translation
And the border shall turn from Azmon to the torrent of Egypt, and its border shall be at the sea.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and stretch out from Azmona vnto the ryuer of Egipte, and that the ende therof be at the greate see.
American Standard Version
and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the sea.
Bible in Basic English
And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And fet a compasse agayne from Azmon, vnto the riuer of Egypt, and shall go out at the sea.
King James Version (1611)
And the border shall fetch a comcompasse from Azmon vnto the riuer of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the border shall compass from Asemona to the river of Egypt, and the sea shall be the termination.
English Revised Version
and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the sea.
Berean Standard Bible
where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the terme schal go bi cumpas fro Assemona `til to the stronde of Egipt, and it schal be endid bi the brynke of the grete see.
Young's Literal Translation
and the border hath turned round from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its outgoings have been at the sea.
Update Bible Version
and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the sea.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the border shall form a circuit from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and the limits of it shall be at the sea.
World English Bible
and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
New King James Version
the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the Sea.
New Living Translation
From Azmon the boundary will turn toward the Brook of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.
New Life Bible
Then it will turn from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and will end at the sea.
New Revised Standard
the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Wadi of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the Sea.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then shall the boundary turn round from Azmon towards the ravine of Egypt, - and the extension thereof shall be towards the sea.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the limits shall fetch a compass from Asemona to the torrent of Egypt, and shall end in the shore of the great sea.
Revised Standard Version
and the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The border shall turn direction from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea.

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

the river: Genesis 15:18, Joshua 15:4, Joshua 15:47, 1 Kings 8:65, Isaiah 27:12

the sea: Numbers 34:6, Numbers 34:7

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 24:7 - from the river 1 Chronicles 13:5 - Shihor 2 Chronicles 7:8 - from the entering Ezekiel 48:28 - the river

Cross-References

Genesis 30:35
And he removed that day the he-goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the dark ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
Genesis 34:13
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
Genesis 34:14
and said unto them: 'We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us.
Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said unto Aaron: 'This is it that the LORD spoke, saying: Through them that are nigh unto Me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.' And Aaron held his peace.
1 Samuel 10:27
But certain base fellows said: 'How shall this man save us?' And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he was as one that held his peace.
1 Samuel 16:11
And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'Are here all thy children?' And he said: 'There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep.' And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he come hither.'
1 Samuel 17:15
Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.--
2 Samuel 13:22
And Absalom spoke unto Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
Psalms 39:9
Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the base.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the border shall fetch a compass,.... Not go on in a straight line, but turn about:

from Azmon unto the river of Egypt; the river Nile, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; but Aben Ezra seems to deny that that river is meant: and some think that Rhinocolura, which flows into the Mediterranean sea, is meant; or the "valley of Egypt", Casiotis, which divided Judea from Egypt, as follows:

and the goings out of it; not of the river, but of the border:

shall be at the sea; the above sea, called in the next verse the great sea; all the Targums render it to the west.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The southern boundary commenced at the Dead Sea. The broad and desolate valley by which the depressed bed of that sea is protected toward the south, is called the Ghor. A deep narrow glen enters it at its southwest corner; it is called Wady-el-Fikreh, and is continued in the same southwestern direction, under the name of Wady el-Marrah; a wady which loses itself among the hills belonging to “the wilderness of Zin;” and Kadesh-barnea (see Numbers 13:26 note), which is “in the wilderness of Zin,” will be, as the text implies, the southernmost point of the southern boundary. Thence, if Kadesh be identical with the present Ain el-Weibeh, westward to the river, or brook of Egypt, now Wady el-Arish, is a distance of about seventy miles. In this interval were Hazar-addar and Azmon; the former being perhaps the general name of a district of Hazerim, or nomad hamlets (see Deuteronomy 2:23), of which Adder was one: and Azmon, perhaps to be identified with Kesam, the modern Kasaimeh, a group of springs situate in the north of one of the gaps in the ridge, and a short distance west of Ain el-Kudeirat.

(Others consider the boundary line to have followed the Ghor along the Arabah to the south of the Azazimeh mountains, thence to Gadis round the southeast of that mountain, and thence to Wady el-Arish.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 34:5. The river of Egypt — The eastern branch of the river Nile; or, according to others, a river which is south of the land of the Philistines, and fails into the gulf or bay near Calieh.


 
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