God’s Word Translation
Numbers 34:6
6“The western border is the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.
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
4and turns south of the Akrabbim Pass. It then goes past Zin and ends at Kadesh Barnea. From there it goes to Hazar Addar and on to Azmon. 5From Azmon it turns toward the River of Egypt so that the border ends at the Mediterranean Sea. “The western border is the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. 7“The northern border extends from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor, 8and from Mount Hor to the border of Hamath so that it ends at 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 borders will be the desert ⌞on the south⌟, nearby Lebanon to the Euphrates River (the country of the Hittites) ⌞on the north⌟, and the Mediterranean Sea on the west.
- Joshua 9:1When all the kings west of the Jordan River heard about these events,
- Joshua 15:12The western border is the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. These are the borders around Judah that belong to their families.
- Joshua 23:4I have given you the territory of the nations that still remain as an inheritance for your tribes. This includes the territory of all the nations I have already destroyed from the Jordan River westward to the Mediterranean Sea.
- Ezekiel 47:10From En Gedi to En Eglaim people will be standing on the shore of the sea with their fishing nets spread out. As many kinds of fish will be there as there are in 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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