Numbers 34:1–15

The Land of Canaan Is Divided

34Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Command the Israelites^a and say to them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that was allotted to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to its boundaries. ³Your southern edge will be from the desert of Zin toward the side of Edom, and your southern border will be from the end of the Salt Sea^b to the east; ⁴your boundary will turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim^c and will pass over to Zin, and its limits will be from the south of Kadesh Barnea; it will continue to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon. ⁵The boundary will turn from Azmon to the valley of Egypt, and its limits will be to the sea.

⁶“ ‘Your western boundary will be the Great Sea;^d this will be your western boundary. ⁷Your northern border will be from the Great Sea;^e you will make a boundary from the Great Sea^f to Mount Hor. ⁸From Mount Hor you will make a boundary to reach Hamath; the limits of the territory will be at Zedad. ⁹The boundary will go out to Ziphron, and its limits will be at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary to the north.

¹⁰“ ‘You will mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar Enan to Shepham; ¹¹the boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah from the east side of Ain, and the boundary will go down and border on the eastern side of the Sea of Kinnereth. ¹²The boundary will go down to the Jordan, and its limits will be at the Salt Sea.^g This will be your land according to its boundaries all around.’ ”

¹³So Moses commanded the Israelites,^h saying, “This is the land that you will obtain as an inheritance for yourself by lot, which Yahweh commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes. ¹⁴For the tribe of the children of the Reubenites,ⁱ the children of the Gadites,^j and the half-tribe of Manasseh took their inheritance according to the house of their families.^{k 15}The two and a half tribes have taken their inheritance from beyond the Jordan across Jericho, east toward the sunrise.”