Numbers 34:6 “Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will…”

Numbers 34:6

Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

World English Bible

“‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.

American Standard Version

And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this shall be your west border.

Geneva Bible 1599

And your Westquarter shall bee the great Sea: euen that border shalbe your Westcoast.

Darby Translation

And as west border ye shall have the great sea, and [its] coast. This shall be your west border.

Young's Literal Translation

'As to the west border, even the great sea hath been to you a border; this is to you the west border.

Bible in Basic English

And for your limit on the west you will have the Great Sea and its edge: this will be your limit on the west.

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Cross references

“And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.”

Joshua 1:4 Joshua 9:1 Joshua 15:12 Joshua 15:47 Joshua 23:4 Ezekiel 47:10

Joshua 1:4 · BSB

Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.

Joshua 9:1 · BSB

Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, a…

Joshua 15:12 · BSB

And the western border was the coastline of the Great Sea. These are the boundaries around the clans of the descendants of Judah.

Joshua 15:47 · BSB

Ashdod, with its towns and villages; Gaza, with its towns and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Great Sea.

Joshua 23:4 · BSB

See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.

Ezekiel 47:10 · BSB

Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

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

In context

5where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.

7Your northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,

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