Numbers 34:2
Good News Translation
the following instructions for the people of Israel: "When you enter Canaan, the land which I am giving you, the borders of your territory will be as follows.

New Revised Standard Version
Command the Israelites, and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan, defined by its boundaries),

Contemporary English Version
to tell the people of Israel that their land in Canaan would have the following borders:

New American Bible
Give the Israelites this order: When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the territory that shall fall to you as your heritage—the land of Canaan with its boundaries:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you are entered into the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into your possession by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you are entered into the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into your possession by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits:

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Numbers 33:51-53 Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan, . . .

Genesis 12:6,7 Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land. . . .

Genesis 13:15-17 All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever. . . .

Genesis 15:16-21 But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time. . . .

Genesis 17:8 And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

Deuteronomy 1:7,8 Turn you, and come to the mountain of the Amorrhites, and to the other places that are next to it, the plains and the hills and the vales towards the south, and by the sea shore, the land of the Chanaanites, and of Libanus, as far as the great river Euphrates. . . .

Psalm 78:55 And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

Psalm 105:11 Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.

Ezekiel 47:14 And you shall possess it, every man in like manner as his brother: concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for a possession.

Acts 17:26 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

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Psalm 16:5,6 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me. . . .

Jeremiah 3:19 But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not cease to walk after me.

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Ephesians 1:14,18 Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of his glory. . . .

1 Peter 1:3,4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: . . .

Context
The Boundaries of Canaan
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you are entered into the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into your possession by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits:3The south side shall begin from the wilderness of Sin, which is by Edom: and shall have the most salt sea for its furthest limits eastward:…
Cross References
Genesis 10:19
And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa.

Genesis 17:8
And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

Numbers 34:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Psalm 78:54
And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.

Psalm 78:55
And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

Psalm 105:11
Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.

Ezekiel 47:13
Thus saith the Lord God: This is the border, by which you shall possess the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: for Joseph hath a double portion.

Numbers 34:1
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