Numbers 34:6

THE MESSAGE

"Your western border will be the Mediterranean Sea.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the border [of it]: this shall be your west border.

King James Version
And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

Lexham English Bible
"‘Your western boundary will be the Great Sea; this will be your western boundary.

English Standard Version
"For the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast. This shall be your western border.

New Century Version
"‘Your western border will be the Mediterranean Sea.

New English Translation
"‘And for a western border you will have the Great Sea. This will be your western border.

Amplified Bible
'As the western boundary you shall have the Great [Mediterranean] Sea and its coastline. This shall be your western boundary.

New American Standard Bible
'As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your western border.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And your Westquarter shall bee the great Sea: euen that border shalbe your Westcoast.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘And as for the west border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your west border.

Contemporary English Version
The western border will be the Mediterranean Sea.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Your western border will be the Great Sea.

Darby Translation
And as west border ye shall have the great sea, and [its] coast. This shall be your west border.

Easy-to-Read Version
Your western border will be the Mediterranean Sea.

George Lamsa Translation
And as for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its coasts; this shall be your western border.

Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border.

Literal Translation
As to the western border, even the Great Sea shall be a border to you; this is your western border.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But the West quarter shal be this: namely the greate see, let yt be youre border towarde the West.

American Standard Version
And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this shall be your west border.

Bible in Basic English
And for your limit on the west you will have the Great Sea and its edge: this will be your limit on the west.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And let your west quarter be the great sea, let the same sea be your west coast.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your west border.

King James Version (1611)
And as for the Westerne border, you shall euen haue the great sea for a border: this shall be your West border.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.

English Revised Version
And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this shall be your west border.

Berean Standard Bible
Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the west coost schal bigynne at the greet see, and schal be closid bi that ende.

Young's Literal Translation
`As to the west border, even the great sea hath been to you a border; this is to you the west border.

Update Bible Version
And for the western border, you shall have the great sea and the neighboring area: this shall be your west border.

Webster's Bible Translation
And [as for] the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

World English Bible
For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the border [of it]: this shall be your west border.

New King James Version
"As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border.

New Living Translation
"Your western boundary will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.

New Life Bible
‘The west side of your land will be the shore of the Great Sea.

New Revised Standard
For the western boundary, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast; this shall be your western boundary.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, for a west boundary, - ye shall have the great sea, even a boundary, this, shall serve you as west boundary.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same shall be the end thereof.

Revised Standard Version
"For the western boundary, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast; this shall be your western boundary.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your west border.

Contextual Overview

¹ 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: ³"Your southern border will take in some of the Wilderness of Zin where it touches Edom. It starts in the east at the Dead Sea, curves south of Scorpion Pass and on to Zin, continues south of Kadesh Barnea, then to Hazar Addar and on to Azmon, where it takes a turn to the northwest to the Brook of Egypt and on to the Mediterranean Sea. ⁶ "Your western border will be the Mediterranean Sea. ⁷"Your northern border runs on a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor, and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath, connects to Zedad, continues to Ziphron, and ends at Hazar Enan. This is your northern border. ¹⁰"Your eastern border runs on a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham. The border goes south from Shepham to Riblah to the east of Ain, and continues along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee. The border then follows the Jordan River and ends at the Dead Sea. "This is your land with its four borders." ¹³Moses then commanded the People of Israel: "This is the land: Divide up the inheritance by lot. God has ordered it to be given to the nine and a half tribes. The tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance; the two tribes and the half-tribe got their inheritance east of Jordan-Jericho, facing the sunrise."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 1:4, Joshua 9:1, Joshua 15:12, Joshua 15:47, Joshua 23:4, Ezekiel 47:10, Ezekiel 47:15, Ezekiel 47:20

Reciprocal: Numbers 34:5 - the sea Numbers 34:7 - north border Deuteronomy 34:2 - unto Joshua 16:3 - the sea Joshua 16:8 - the sea

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And as for the western border,.... Of the land of Canaan:

you shall even have the great sea for a border; and no other, meaning the Mediterranean sea, which lies west of the land of Judea; Aben Ezra calls it the Spanish sea: it has the name of "great", in comparison of some in the land of Canaan, as the salt sea, and the sea of Tiberias:

this shall be your west border; namely, the Mediterranean sea.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 34:6. Ye shall even have the great sea for a border — The Mediterranean Sea, called here the Great Sea, to distinguish it from the Dead Sea, the Sea of Tiberias, &c., which were only a sort of lakes. In Hebrew there is properly but one term, ים yam, which is applied to all collections of water apparently stagnant, and which is generally translated sea. The Greek of the New Testament follows the Hebrew, and employs, in general, the word θαλασσα, SEA, whether it speaks of the Mediterranean, or of the sea or lake of Galilee.