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Numbers 34:6
6“ ‘Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Your western boundary will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.
Context of Numbers 34:6
4cross south of Scorpion Pass, continue on to Zin and go south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon, 5where it will turn, join the Wadi of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea. “ ‘Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west. 7“ ‘For your northern boundary, run a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor 8and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to 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 extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
- Joshua 9:1Now when all the kings west of the Jordan heard about these things—the kings in the hill country, in the western foothills, and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far as Lebanon (the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites)—
- Joshua 15:12The western boundary is the coastlpine of the Mediterranean Sea. These are the boundaries around the people of Judah by their clans.
- Joshua 23:4Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain—the nations I conquered—between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
- Ezekiel 47:10Fishermen will stand along the shore; from En Gedi to En Eglaim there will be places for spreading nets. The fish will be of many 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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