Numbers 34:5

Wycliffe Bible

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.

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.

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.

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 spak to Moises, ² and seide, Comaunde thou to the sones of Israel, and thou schalt seie to hem, Whanne ye han entrid in to the lond of Canaan, and it bifelde in to possessioun `to you bi lot, it schal be endid bi these endis. <sup>3</sup> The south part schal bigynne at the wildirnesse of Syn, which is bisidis Edom, and it schal haue termes ayens the eest, <sup>4</sup> the saltiste see, whiche termes schulen cumpasse the south coost bi the `stiynge of Scorpioun, `that is, of an hil clepid Scorpioun, so that tho passe in to Senna, and come to the south, `til to Cades Barne; fro whennus the coostis schulen go out to the town, Abdar bi name, and schulen strecche forth `til to Asemona; <sup>5</sup> 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. ⁶ Forsothe the west coost schal bigynne at the greet see, and schal be closid bi that ende. ⁷ Sotheli at the north coost, the termes schulen bigynne at the greet see, and schulen come `til to the hiyeste hil, <sup>8</sup> fro which tho schulen come in to Emath, `til to the termes of Sedada; ⁹ and the coostis schulen go `til to Ephrona, and the town of Enan. These schulen be the termes in the north part. <sup>10</sup> Fro thennus thei schulen mete coostis ayens the eest coost, fro the town Henan `til to Sephama;

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 departide in that dai the geet, and scheep, geet buckis, and rammes, dyuerse and spottid. Sothely he bitook al the flok of o coloure, that is, of white and of blak flees in the hond of hise sones;

Genesis 34:13
The sones of Jacob answeriden in gile to Sichem and his fadir, and weren feerse for the defoulyng of maidenhod of the sistir,

Genesis 34:14
We moun not do this that ye axen, nether we moun yyue oure sistir to a man vncircumcidid, which thing is vnleueful and abhomynable anentis vs.

Leviticus 10:3
And Moises seide to Aaron, This thing it is which the Lord spak, Y schal be halewid in hem that neiyen to me, and Y schal be glorified in the siyt of al the puple; which thing Aaron herde, and was stille.

1 Samuel 10:27
Forsothe the sones of Belyal seiden, Whether this man may saue vs? And thei dispisiden hym, and brouyten not yiftis, `that is, preisyngis, to him; forsothe he `dissymelide hym to here.

1 Samuel 16:11
And Samuel seide to Isai, Whether thi sones ben now fillid? And Isai answeride, Yit `another is, a litil child, and lisewith scheep. And Samuel seide to Isai, Sende thou, and brynge hym; for we schulen not sitte to mete, bifor that he come hidur.

1 Samuel 17:15
and turnede ayen fro Saul, that he schulde kepe the floc of his fadir in Bethleem.

2 Samuel 13:22
Forsothe Absolon spak not to Amon, nether yuel nether good; for Absolon hatide Amon, for he hadde defoulid Thamar, his sistir.

Psalms 39:9
I was doumbe, and openyde not my mouth; for thou hast maad,

Luke 15:25
But his eldere sone was in the feeld; and whanne he cam, and neiyede to the hous, he herde a symfonye and a croude.

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.