Numbers 34:3 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 34:3

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,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;

KJV

Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The southern boundary commenced at the Dead Sea. The broad and desolate valley by which the depressed bed of that sea is protected toward the south, is called the Ghor. A deep narrow glen enters it at its southwest corner; it is called Wady-el-Fikreh, and is continued in the same southwestern direction, under the name of Wady el-Marrah; a wady which loses itself among the hills belonging to “the wilderness of Zin;” and Kadesh-barnea (see Num 13:26 note), which is “in the wilderness of Zin,” will be, as the text implies, the southernmost point of the southern boundary.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָיָ֨ה	ve.ha.Yah	and it will be	H1961 →
לָכֶ֧ם	la.Khem	of you
פְּאַת־	pe.'at-	[the] side of	H6285 →
נֶ֛גֶב	Ne.gev	[the] south	H5045 →
מִמִּדְבַּר־	mi.mid.bar-	from [the] wilderness of	H4057 →
צִ֖ן	tzin	Zin	H6790 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
יְדֵ֣י	ye.Dei	[the] hands of	H3027 →
אֱד֑וֹם	'e.Dom	Edom	H123 →
וְהָיָ֤ה	ve.ha.Yah	and it will be	H1961 →
לָכֶם֙	la.Khem	of you
גְּב֣וּל	ge.Vul	border of	H1366 →
נֶ֔גֶב	Ne.gev	[the] southward	H5045 →
מִקְצֵ֥ה	mik.Tzeh	from [the] end of	H7097 →
יָם־	yom-	[the] Sea of	H3220 →
הַמֶּ֖לַח	ha.Me.lach	<the> Salt	H4417 →
קֵֽדְמָה׃	Ke.de.mah	east -ward	H6924 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 23:31
And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you…
leads to
- Genesis 15:18
  On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- Deuteronomy 11:24
  Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
- Joshua 21:44
  And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the LORD delivered all their enemies into their…
- Joshua 1:4
  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.
Through
Joshua 3:16
the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…
leads to
- Joshua 3:13
  When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will…
Through
Genesis 14:3
The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
leads to
- Joshua 3:16
  the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…
- 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.”
- Deuteronomy 3:17
  The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.