Joshua 15:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ passes along to Azmon, goes out by the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ from thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Passed along to Azmon, went out by the Brook of Egypt, and ended at the sea. This was their southern frontier.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ and it passed along to Azmon, and went out at the brook of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were at the sea: this shall be your south border.

Common English Bible

⁴ It passed on to Azmon and went by the border of Egypt. The border ended at the sea. This will be their south border.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And from there, it passes on to Azmon, and reaches to the torrent of Egypt. And its boundary shall be the great sea; this shall be the limit of the southern region.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And from thence passing along into Asemona, and reaching the torrent of Egypt. And the bounds thereof shall be the great sea. This shall be the limit of the south coast.

Joshua 15:4 Cross References

Genesis 15:18

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

1 Kings 8:65

So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days.

Exodus 23:31

And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

Isaiah 27:12

In that day from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel.

Numbers 34:5

and the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea.

Joshua 13:3

(from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundry of Ekron, it is reckoned as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim,

Joshua 15:3

it goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka,

Joshua 15:47

Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coast-line.