Tree of Life Version
Numbers 34:6
6“Your western boundary will be the coast of the Great 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 cross south of the Scorpion Pass and continue to Zin and south of Kadesh-barnea, then go on to Hazar-addar and on to Azmon. 5Then the border will turn from Azmon to the Wadi of Egypt and end at the sea. “Your western boundary will be the coast of the Great Sea. This will be your western border. 7“Your northern boundary will be by running a line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor, 8then from Mount Hor to Levo-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 1:4From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the Euphrates River—all the land of the Hittites— to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.
- Joshua 9:1Now when all the kings who were west of the Jordan, in the hill country, in the lowland and along the shore of the Great Sea to the vicinity of Lebanon—the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—heard about it,
- Joshua 15:12The western border was the Great Sea and its coastline. These were the borders around the children of Judah according to their clans.
- Joshua 23:4Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance, according to your tribes, these nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.
- Ezekiel 47:10Fishermen will stand by it; from En-gedi to En-eglaim, it will be a place for spreading of nets. Their fish will be of many different kinds—like the fish of the Great Sea, a huge quantity.
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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