Numbers 34 (MSG)

¹God spoke to Moses:

²"Command the People of Israel. Tell them: When you enter Canaan, these are the borders of the land you are getting as an inheritance:

³"Your southern border will take in some of the Wilderness of Zin where it touches Edom. It starts in the east at the Dead Sea,

⁴curves south of Scorpion Pass and on to Zin, continues south of Kadesh Barnea, then to Hazar Addar and on to Azmon,

⁵where it takes a turn to the northwest to the Brook of Egypt and on to the Mediterranean Sea.

⁶"Your western border will be the Mediterranean Sea.

⁷"Your northern border runs on a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor,

⁸and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath, connects to Zedad,

⁹continues to Ziphron, and ends at Hazar Enan. This is your northern border.

¹⁰"Your eastern border runs on a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

¹¹The border goes south from Shepham to Riblah to the east of Ain, and continues along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee.

¹²The border then follows the Jordan River and ends at the Dead Sea. "This is your land with its four borders."

¹³Moses then commanded the People of Israel: "This is the land: Divide up the inheritance by lot. God has ordered it to be given to the nine and a half tribes.

¹⁴The tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance;

¹⁵the two tribes and the half-tribe got their inheritance east of Jordan-Jericho, facing the sunrise."

¹⁶God spoke to Moses:

¹⁷"These are the men who will be in charge of distributing the inheritance of the land: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

¹⁸Assign one leader from each tribe to help them in distributing the land.

¹⁹Assign these: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;

²⁰Shemuel son of Ammihud from the tribe of Simeon;

²¹Elidad son of Kislon from the tribe of Benjamin;

²²Bukki son of Jogli, leader from the tribe of Dan;

²³Hanniel son of Ephod, leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph;

²⁴Kemuel son of Shiphtan, leader from the tribe of Ephraim son of Joseph;

²⁵Elizaphan son of Parnach, leader from the tribe of Zebulun;

²⁶Paltiel son of Azzan, leader from the tribe of Issachar;

²⁷Ahihud son of Shelomi, leader from the tribe of Asher;

²⁸Pedahel son of Ammihud, leader from the tribe of Naphtali."

²⁹These are the men God commanded to hand out the assignments of land-inheritance to the People of Israel in the country of Canaan.