Numbers 34:12 “Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea.…”

Numbers 34:12

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

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’”

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Also that border shall goe downe to Iorden, and leaue at the salt Sea. this shalbe your land with the coastes thereof round about.

Darby Translation

and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and shall end at the salt sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.

Young's Literal Translation

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.'

Bible in Basic English

And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the land inside these limits will be yours.

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Cross references

“the salt sea”

Numbers 34:3 Genesis 13:10 Genesis 14:3 Genesis 19:24–26

Numbers 34:3 · BSB

Your 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,

Genesis 13:10 · BSB

And 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 14:3 · BSB

The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea ).

Genesis 19:24–26 · BSB

Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.

13So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.

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