Genesis 15:18-21
18On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, a“To your offspring I give ▼▼Or have given
this land, from cthe river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.” Exodus 23:31
31 dAnd I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, ▼▼Hebrew the River
for fI will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. Numbers 34:2-18
2“Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter gthe land of Canaan h(this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders), 3 iyour south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border shall run from the end of jthe Salt Sea on the east. 4And your border shall turn south of kthe ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it shall go on to lHazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon. 5And the border shall turn mfrom Azmon to nthe Brook of Egypt, and its limit shall be at the sea.6“For the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its ▼
▼Syriac; Hebrew lacks its
coast. This shall be your western border. 7“This shall be your northern border: from the Great Sea you shall draw a line to pMount Hor. 8From Mount Hor you shall draw a line qto Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at rZedad. 9Then the border shall extend to Ziphron, and its limit shall be at sHazar-enan. This shall be your northern border.
10“You shall draw a line for your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham. 11And the border shall go down from Shepham to tRiblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of uthe Sea of Chinnereth on the east. 12And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at vthe Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around.”
13Moses commanded the people of Israel, saying, w“This is the land that you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe. 14 xFor the tribe of the people of Reuben by fathers’ houses and the tribe of the people of Gad by their fathers’ houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh. 15The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise.”
List of Tribal Chiefs
16The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 17“These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: yEleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun. 18You shall take one zchief from every tribe to divide the land for inheritance.Deuteronomy 1:7
7Turn and take your journey, and go to aathe hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in abthe Arabah, acin the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and adby the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.Deuteronomy 3:25
25Please let me go over and see aethe good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and afLebanon.’Deuteronomy 11:24
24 agEvery place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be ahfrom the wilderness to ▼▼Hebrew and
the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. 1 Chronicles 5:9
9He also lived to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphrates, because their livestock had multiplied ajin the land of Gilead.
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