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Lord said to Moses, 2 “Command the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land of Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance will have these boundaries:
3 ‘Your southern sector will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. Your southern border will start from the Salt Sea to the east. 4 Your boundary will turn south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and end south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will continue to Hazar-addar, and over to Azmon. 5 The boundary will turn from Azmon to the Wadiof Egypt and end at the Sea.
6 ‘Your western boundary will be the coastline of the Great Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.
7 ‘This will be your northern boundary: From the Great Sea you are to mark out your boundary line to Mount Hor; 8 then from Mount Hor you are to mark out your boundary to Lebo-hamath, and the boundary will reach Zedad. 9 Then the boundary will proceed to Ziphron and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your northern boundary.
10 ‘You are to mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar-enan to Shepham. 11 The boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and reach to the eastern shore of the Sea of Chinnereth. 12 Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and it will end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land with its boundaries on every side’.”
13 So Moses commanded the Israelites: “This is the land that you will inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to be given to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe. 14 For the tribe of the Reubenites and the tribe of the Gadites have received their inheritance by their ancestral houses, and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance. 15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, eastward towards the sunrise.”
16 The Lord said to Moses, 17 “These are the names of the men who are to distribute the land among you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. 18 You are to take one leader from each tribe to help distribute the land. 19 These are the names of the men:
“Caleb son of Jephunneh, from the tribe of Judah; 20 Shemuel son of Ammihud, from the tribe of Simeon; 21 Elidad son of Chislon, from the tribe of Benjamin; 22 Bukki son of Jogli, the leader from the tribe of Dan; 23 Hanniel son of Ephod, the leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph; 24 Kemuel son of Shiphtan, the leader from the tribe of Ephraim; 25 Elizaphan son of Parnach, the leader from the tribe of Zebulun; 26 Paltiel son of Azzan, the leader from the tribe of Issachar; 27 Ahihud son of Shelomi, the leader from the tribe of Asher; 28 Pedahel son of Ammihud, the leader from the tribe of Naphtali.”
29 These are the men whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.