CHAPTER 34

¹And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Charge the Israelites, and you shall say to them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that will fall to you in estate, the land of Canaan by its borders. ³And your southern limit shall be from the Wilderness of Zin by Edom, and your southern border from the edge of the Dead Sea to the east. ⁴And your border shall swing round south of the Ascent of Akrabbim and pass through Zin, and its farthest reaches shall be south of Kadesh-Barnea, and it shall extend out to Hazar-Addar and pass through to Azmon. ⁵And the border shall swing round from Azmon toward the Wadi of Egypt, and its farthest reaches to the Sea. ⁶And the western border—the Great Sea shall be your border, this shall be your western border. ⁷And this shall be your northern border, from the Great Sea you shall trace a line to Hor the Mountain. ⁸From Hor the Mountain you shall trace a line to Lebo-Hamath, and the farthest reaches of the border to Zedad. ⁹And the border shall extend to Ziphron, and its farthest reaches, Hazar-Enan. This shall be your northern border. ¹⁰And you shall trace for yourselves a line for the eastern border from Hazar-Enan to Shepham. ¹¹And the border shall go down from Shepham to the Riblah, east of Ain, and the border shall go down and touch the slope of Lake Chinnereth to the east. ¹²And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its farthest reaches at the Dead Sea. This shall be your land by its borders all around.’”

¹³And Moses charged the Israelites, saying, “This is the land of which you will take possession by lot, as the LORD has charged to give to the nine and a half tribes. ¹⁴For the tribe of the Reubenites by their fathers’ houses and the tribe of the Gadites by their fathers’ houses and the half-tribe of Manasseh have taken their estate. ¹⁵The two and a half tribes have taken their estate beyond the Jordan across from Jericho to the east.” ¹⁶And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁷“These are the names of the men who will share out estates of the land for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. ¹⁸And one chieftain, one chieftain from each tribe you shall take to share out the estates of the land. ¹⁹And these are the names of the men: For the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh. ²⁰For the tribe of the Simeonites, Samuel son of Ammihud. ²¹For the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon. ²²And for the tribe of the Danites, chieftain Bukki, son of Jogli. ²³For the Josephites of the tribe of the Manassites, chieftain Hanniel son of Ephod. ²⁴And for the tribe of the Ephraimites, chieftain Kemuel son of Shiphtan. ²⁵And for the tribe of the Zebulunites, chieftain Elizaphan son of Parnach. ²⁶And for the tribe of the Issacharites, chieftain Paltiel son of Azzan. ²⁷And for the tribe of the Asherites, chieftain Ahihud son of Shelomi. ²⁸And for the tribe of the Naphtalites, chieftain Pedahel son of Ammihud. ²⁹These are the ones whom the LORD charged to share out estates to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.”