Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain of the Jordan as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Numbers 34:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then the border will go down to the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. This will be your land defined by its borders on all sides.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and the end shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its boundaries all around. American Standard Version (1901) and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about. Common English Bible The border will descend to the Jordan. Its limit will be the Dead Sea. This will be your land with its borders all around. Catholic Public Domain Version and shall extend as far as the Jordan, and, at the furthest extent, shall be enclosed by the Sea of Salt. You shall have this land, with its borders all around." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And shall reach as far as the Jordan: and at the last shall be closed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its borders round about. |
Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain of the Jordan as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
All of these came as allies to the Siddim Valley (that is, the Dead Sea ).
I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates. For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.
This is what the Lord God says: ‘This is the border you will use to divide the land as an inheritance for the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph will receive two shares.
The border will go down from Shepham to Riblah east of Ain. It will continue down and reach the eastern slope of the Sea of Chinnereth. ,
So Moses commanded the Israelites, ‘This is the land you are to receive by lot as an inheritance, which the Lord commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes.
Your southern side will be from the Wilderness of Zin along the boundary of Edom. Your southern border on the east will begin at the east end of the Dead Sea.
Joshua was now old, advanced in age, and the Lord said to him, ‘You have become old, advanced in age, but a great deal of the land remains to be possessed.
Now the eastern border was along the Dead Sea to the mouth of the Jordan. The border on the north side was from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.