Numbers 34:5

King James Version (1611 Edition)

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.

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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the Brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof 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 spake vnto Moses, saying, ² Command the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan, (this is the land that shall fall vnto you for an inheritance, euen the land of Canaan, with the coasts thereof.) ³ Then your South quarter shall be from the wildernesse of Zin, along by the coast of Edom, and your South border shall be the outmost coast of the salt Sea Eastward. ⁴ And your border shal turne from the South to the ascent of Akrabbim, and passe on to Zin: and the going foorth thereof shall be from the South to Kadesh-Barnea, and shall goe on to Hazar-Addar, and passe on to Azmon. ⁵ 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. ⁶ And as for the Westerne border, you shall euen haue the great sea for a border: this shall be your West border. ⁷ And this shall be your North border: from the great sea, you shall point out for you, mount Hor. ⁸ From mount Hor, ye shall point out your border vnto the entrance of Hamath: and the goings foorth of the border shall be to Zedad. ⁹ And the border shall goe on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall bee at Hazar Enan: this shall be your North border. ¹⁰ And ye shall point out your 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 remoued that day the hee goates that were ring-straked, and spotted, and all the shee goats that were speckled and spotted, and euery one that had some white in it, and all the browne amongst the sheepe, and gaue them into the hand of his sonnes.

Genesis 34:13
And the sonnes of Iacob answered Shechem, and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

Genesis 34:14
And they saide vnto them, wee cannot doe this thing, to giue our sister to one that is vncircumcised: for that were a reproch vnto vs.

Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said vnto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will bee sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified: And Aaron held his peace.

1 Samuel 10:27
But the children of Belial sayd, Howe shall this man saue vs? and they despised him, and brought him no presents: but he held his peace.

1 Samuel 16:11
And Samuel saide vnto Iesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the yongest, and behold, he keepeth the sheepe. And Samuel said vnto Iesse, Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit downe, till hee come hither.

1 Samuel 17:15
But Dauid went, and returned from Saul, to feed his fathers sheepe at Bethlehem.

2 Samuel 13:22
And Absalom spake vnto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

Psalms 39:9
I was dumbe, I opened not my mouth; because thou diddest it.

Luke 15:25
Now his elder sonne was in the field, and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musicke & dauncing,

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.