1    2   The Lord spoke to Moses and said, Give these instructions to the Israelites: Soon you will be entering Canaan. This is the land assigned to you as a perpetual patrimony, the land of Canaan thus defined by its frontiers. 3   Your southern border shall start from the wilderness of Zin, where it marches with Edom, and run southwards from the end of the Dead Sea on its eastern side. 4   It shall then turn from the south up the ascent of Akrabbim and pass by Zin, and its southern limit shall be Kadesh-barnea. 5   It shall proceed by Hazar-addar to Azmon and from Azmon turn towards the Torrent of Egypt, and its limit shall be the sea. 6   Your western frontier shall be the Great Sea and the seaboard; this shall be your frontier to the west. 7   This shall be your northern frontier: 8   you shall draw a line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the frontier shall be Zedad. 9   From there it shall run to Ziphron, and its limit shall be Hazar-enan; this shall be your frontier to the north. 10   To the east you shall draw a line from Hazar-enan to Shepham; 11   it shall run down from Shepham to Riblah east of Ain, continuing until it strikes the ridge east of the sea of Kinnereth. 12   The frontier shall then run down to the Jordan and its limit shall be the Dead Sea. The land defined by these frontiers shall be your land.

13   Moses gave these instructions to the Israelites: This is the land which you shall assign by lot, each taking your own territory; it is the land which the Lord has ordered to be given to nine tribes and a half tribe. 14   For the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh have already occupied their territories, family by family. 15   These two and a half tribes have received their territory here beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, towards the sunrise.

16    17   The Lord spoke to Moses and said, These are the men who shall assign the land for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. 18   You shall also take one chief from each tribe to assign the land. 19   These are their names:

from the tribe of Judah: Caleb son of Jephunneh; 20   from the tribe of Simeon: Samuel son of Ammihud; 21   from the tribe of Benjamin: Elidad son of Kislon; 22   from the tribe of Dan: the chief Bukki son of Jogli; 23   from the Josephites: from Manasseh, the chief Hanniel son of Ephod; 24    and from Ephraim, the chief Kemuel son of Shiphtan;

Israel in the plains of Moab 25   from Zebulun: the chief Elizaphan son of Parnach; 26   from Issachar: the chief Paltiel son of Azzan; 27   from Asher: the chief Ahihud son of Shelomi; 28   from Naphtali: the chief Pedahel son of Ammihud.

29   These were the men whom the Lord appointed to assign the territories in the land of Canaan.

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