1 And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Commande the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When yee come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall vnto your inheritance: that is, the land of Canaan with the coastes thereof. 3 And your Southquarter shalbe from the wildernesse of Zin to the borders of Edom: so that your Southquarter shall be from the salt Sea coast Eastwarde: 4 And the border shall compasse you from the South to Maaleh-akrabbim, and reach to Zin, and goe out from the South to Kadesh-barnea: thence it shall stretch to Hazar-addar, and go along to Azmon. 5 And the border shall compasse from Azmon vnto the riuer of Egypt, and shall goe out to the Sea. 6 And your Westquarter shall bee the great Sea: euen that border shalbe your Westcoast. 7 And this shall bee your Northquarter: yee shall marke out your border from the great Sea vnto mount Hor. 8 From mount Hor ye shall point out till it come vnto Hamath, and the end of the coast shall be at Zedad. 9 And the coast shall reach out to Ziphron, and goe out at Hazar-enan. this shalbe your Northquarter. 10 And ye shall marke out your Eastquarter from Hazar-enan to Shepham. 11 And the coast shall goe downe from Shepham to Riblah, and from the Eastside of Ain: and the same border shall descend and goe out at the side of the sea of Chinneereth Eastward. 12 Also that border shall goe downe to Iorden, and leaue at the salt Sea. this shalbe your land with the coastes thereof round about. 13 Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the lande which yee shall inherite by lot, which the Lord commanded to giue vnto nine tribes and halfe the tribe. 14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben, according to the housholdes of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad, according to their fathers housholdes, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh, haue receiued their inheritance. 15 Two tribes and an halfe tribe haue receiued their inheritance on this side of Iorden toward Iericho full East. 16 Againe the Lord spake to Moses, saying, 17 These are the names of the men which shall deuide ye land vnto you: Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun. 18 And ye shall take also a prince of euerie tribe to deuide the land. 19 The names also of the men are these: Of the tribe of Iudah, Caleb ye sonne of Iephunneh. 20 And of the tribe of the sonnes of Simeon, Shemuel the sonne of Ammihud. 21 Of the tribe of Beniamin, Elidad the sonne of Chislon. 22 Also of the tribe of the sonnes of Dan, the prince Bukki, the sonne of Iogli. 23 Of the sonnes of Ioseph: of the tribe of the sonnes of Manasseh, the prince Hanniel the sonne of Ephod. 24 And of the tribe of the sonnes of Ephraim, the prince Kemuel, the sonne of Shiphtan. 25 Of the tribe also of the sonnes of Zebulun, the prince Elizaphan, the sonne of Parnach. 26 So of the tribe of the sonnes of Issachar, the prince Paltiel the sonne of Azzan. 27 Of the tribe also of the sonnes of Asher, the prince Ahihud, the sonne of Shelomi. 28 And of the tribe of the sonnes of Naphtali, the prince Pedahel, the sonne of Ammihud. 29 These are they, whome the Lord commanded to deuide the inheritance vnto the children of Israel, in the land of Canaan.
Numbers 34 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
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Ahihud
One of the ten tribal leaders the LORD named to help Eleazar and Joshua apportion the land of Canaan, representing the tribe of Asher.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:27
Ammihud
The father of Pedahel, who was named leader of the tribe of Naphtali to help apportion the land of Canaan.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:28
Ammihud
The father of Shemuel, who was named leader of the tribe of Simeon to help apportion the land of Canaan.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:20
Azzan
The father of Paltiel, who was named leader of the tribe of Issachar to help apportion the land of Canaan.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:26
Bukki
One of the ten tribal leaders the LORD named to help Eleazar and Joshua apportion the land of Canaan, representing the tribe of Dan.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:22
Chislon
The father of Elidad, who was named leader of the tribe of Benjamin to help apportion the land of Canaan.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:21
Elidad
One of the ten tribal leaders the LORD named to help Eleazar and Joshua apportion the land of Canaan, representing the tribe of Benjamin.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:21
Elizaphan
One of the ten tribal leaders the LORD named to help Eleazar and Joshua apportion the land of Canaan, representing the tribe of Zebulun.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:25
Ephod
The father of Hanniel, who was named leader of the tribe of Manasseh to help apportion the land of Canaan.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:23
Hanniel
One of the ten tribal leaders the LORD named to help Eleazar and Joshua apportion the land of Canaan, representing the tribe of Manasseh.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:23
Kemuel
One of the ten tribal leaders the LORD named to help Eleazar and Joshua apportion the land of Canaan, representing the tribe of Ephraim.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:24
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Paltiel
One of the ten tribal leaders the LORD named to help Eleazar and Joshua apportion the land of Canaan, representing the tribe of Issachar.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:26
Parnach
The father of Elizaphan, who was named leader of the tribe of Zebulun to help apportion the land of Canaan.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:25
Pedahel
One of the ten tribal leaders the LORD named to help Eleazar and Joshua apportion the land of Canaan, representing the tribe of Naphtali.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:28
Shelomi
The father of Ahihud, who was named leader of the tribe of Asher to help apportion the land of Canaan.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:27
Shemuel
One of the ten tribal leaders the LORD named to help Eleazar and Joshua apportion the land of Canaan, representing the tribe of Simeon.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:20
Shiphtan
The father of Kemuel, who was named leader of the tribe of Ephraim to help apportion the land of Canaan.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 34:24
Cross references (19)
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- 2 Genesis 17:8; Psalm 105:11; Deuteronomy 1:7–8; Psalm 78:54–55; Ezekiel 47:14
- 3 Genesis 14:3; Ezekiel 47:13; Joshua 15:1–12; Exodus 23:31; Ezekiel 47:8
- 4 Numbers 32:8; Numbers 13:26; Joshua 15:3–4; Numbers 13:21; Numbers 34:3
- 5 Joshua 15:4; Genesis 15:18; Isaiah 27:12; Joshua 15:47; 1 Kings 8:65
- 6 Ezekiel 47:10; Joshua 15:47; Joshua 1:4; Ezekiel 47:20; Joshua 23:4
- 7 Numbers 33:37; Ezekiel 47:15–17; Numbers 34:3; Numbers 34:6; Numbers 34:9–10
- 8 Numbers 13:21; 2 Kings 14:25; Ezekiel 47:15–20; 2 Samuel 8:9; Joshua 13:5–6
- 9 Ezekiel 47:17
- 11 2 Kings 23:33; Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 11:2; Joshua 19:35; Matthew 14:34
- 12 Numbers 34:3; Genesis 14:3; Genesis 13:10; Genesis 19:24–26
- 13 Numbers 34:1; Joshua 14:1–5
- 14 Numbers 32:33; Numbers 32:23; Joshua 14:2–3; Deuteronomy 3:12–17; Joshua 13:8–12
- 15 Numbers 32:32
- 17 Joshua 14:1; Joshua 19:51; Numbers 13:16; Numbers 13:8
- 18 Numbers 1:4–16
- 19 Numbers 26:65; Numbers 13:30; Numbers 14:6; Genesis 29:35; Deuteronomy 33:7
- 20 Genesis 49:5
- 21 Genesis 49:27; Psalm 68:27
- 29 Numbers 34:18; Joshua 19:51
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