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The Boundaries of Canaan

Numbers 34:6

In 11 translations

BSB
Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.
KJV
And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
WEB
“‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.
ASV
And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this shall be your west border.
LSV
As for the west border, even the Great Sea has been a border to you; this is the west border to you.
YLT
'As to the west border, even the great sea hath been to you a border; this is to you the west border.
DBY
And as west border ye shall have the great sea, and [its] coast. This shall be your west border.
DRC
And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same shall be the end thereof.
GNV
And your Westquarter shall bee the great Sea: euen that border shalbe your Westcoast.
JPS
And for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your west border.
LXXE
And ye shall have your border on the west, the great sea shall be the boundary: this shall be to you the border on the west.Gr. sea.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּגְב֣וּל יָ֔ם וְהָיָ֥ה לָכֶ֛ם הַיָּ֥ם הַגָּד֖וֹל וּגְב֑וּל זֶֽה־יִהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם גְּב֥וּל יָֽם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ τὰ ὅρια τῆς θαλάσσης ἔσται ὑμῖν, ἡ θάλασσα ἡ μεγάλη ὁριεῖ, τοῦτο ἔσται ὑμῖν τὰ ὅρια τῆς θαλάσσης.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Ezekiel 47:10Fishermen 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.
  • Ezekiel 47:15This shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side it will extend from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon through Lebo-hamath to Zedad,
  • Joshua 9:1Now 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,…
  • Joshua 15:47Ashdod, 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 23:4See, 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.
  • Joshua 1:4Your 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.
  • Ezekiel 47:20And on the west side, the Great Sea will be the boundary up to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This will be the western boundary.
  • Joshua 15:12And the western border was the coastline of the Great Sea. These are the boundaries around the clans of the descendants of Judah.

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