7And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
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And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; …
And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
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:
And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-15)We have here a particular draught of the line by which the land of Canaan was meted, and bounded, on all sides. God directs Moses to settle it here, not as a geographer in his map, merely to please the curious, but as a prince in his grant, that it may be certainly known what passes, and is conveyed, by the grant. There was a much larger possession promised them, which in due time they would have…
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