Christian Standard Bible
Numbers 34:6
6Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border.
Numbers 34:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"For the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast. This shall be your western border.
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border.
Context of Numbers 34:6
4Your border will turn south of the Scorpions’ Ascent, proceed to Zin, and end south of Kadesh-barnea. It will go to Hazar-addar and proceed to Azmon. 5The border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, where it will end at the Mediterranean Sea. Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border. 7This will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea draw a line to Mount Hor; 8from Mount Hor draw a line to the entrance of Hamath, and the border will reach Zedad.
Read all of Numbers 34Numbers 34:6 word by word
וּגְב֣וּל יָ֔ם וְהָיָ֥ה לָכֶ֛ם הַיָּ֥ם הַגָּד֖וֹל וּגְב֑וּל זֶֽה־יִהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם גְּב֥וּל יָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Numbers 34:6
- Joshua 1:4Your territory will be from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great river, the Euphrates River — all the land of the Hittites — and west to the Mediterranean Sea.
- Joshua 9:1When all the kings heard about Jericho and Ai, those who were west of the Jordan in the hill country, in the Judean foothills, and all along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea toward Lebanon — the Hethites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites —
- Joshua 15:12Now the western border was the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. This was the boundary of the descendants of Judah around their clans.
- Joshua 23:4See, I have allotted these remaining nations to you as an inheritance for your tribes, including all the nations I have destroyed, from the Jordan westward to the Mediterranean Sea.
- Ezekiel 47:10Fishermen will stand beside it from En-gedi to En-eglaim. These will become places where nets are spread out to dry. Their fish will consist of many different kinds, like the fish of the Mediterranean Sea.
Commentaries on Numbers 34:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Ye 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, etc., 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 , Sea, whether it speaks…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-9The natural western boundary of Canaan was the Mediterranean coast ("the Great Sea," 34:6). The northern boundary started at the Mediterranean and went east to Mount Hor. This was somewhere in the Lebanon mountain range (not the place of Aaron's death, 20:22–29). Lebo-hamath: Compare 13:21; 1 Kings 8:65; Amos 6:14.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. the western border--There is no uncertainty about this boundary, as it is universally allowed to be the Mediterranean, which is called "the great sea" in comparison with the small inland seas or lakes known to the Hebrews.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Numbers 34
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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