Revised Webster's Bible
Numbers 34:6
6And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west 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
4And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: its border shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon: 5And the border shall form a circuit from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and the border of it shall be at the sea. And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border. 7And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor: 8From mount Hor ye shall mark out your border to the entrance of Hamath; and the edge of the border shall be 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
Cross-references for Numbers 34:6
- Joshua 1:4From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the setting of the sun, shall be your land.
- Joshua 9:1And it came to pass, when all the kings who were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard these things ;
- Joshua 15:12And the west border was to the great sea, and its coast. This is the border of the children of Judah all around according to their families.
- Joshua 23:4Behold, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea westward.
- Ezekiel 47:10And it shall come to pass, that the fishermen shall stand upon it from Engedi even to Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, very many.
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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