Numbers 34:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.””
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“Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and the border hath gone down to the Jordan, and its outgoings have been at the Salt Sea; this is for you the land by its borders round about.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 34:12 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Genesis 14:3The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- Genesis 19:24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
- Exodus 23:31And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
- Numbers 34:3Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,
- Joshua 13:1Now Joshua was old and well along in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and well along in years, but very much of the land remains to be possessed.
- Joshua 15:5The eastern border was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan.
- Ezekiel 47:13This is what the Lord GOD says: “These are the boundaries by which you are to divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall receive two portions.
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