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Texts -- Numbers 34:12-29 (NET)

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34:12 Then the border will continue down the Jordan River and its direction will be to the Salt Sea . This will be your land by its borders that surround it.’” 34:13 Then Moses commanded the Israelites : “This is the land which you will inherit by lot , which the Lord has commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes , 34:14 because the tribe of the Reubenites by their families , the tribe of the Gadites by their families , and half of the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance . 34:15 The two and a half tribes have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan , east of Jericho , toward the sunrise .”
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34:16 The Lord said to Moses : 34:17 “These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun . 34:18 You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance . 34:19 These are the names of the men : from the tribe of Judah , Caleb son of Jephunneh ; 34:20 from the tribe of the Simeonites , Shemuel son of Ammihud ; 34:21 from the tribe of Benjamin , Elidad son of Kislon ; 34:22 and from the tribe of the Danites , a leader , Bukki son of Jogli . 34:23 From the Josephites , Hanniel son of Ephod , a leader from the tribe of Manasseh ; 34:24 from the tribe of the Ephraimites , a leader , Kemuel son of Shiphtan ; 34:25 from the tribe of the Zebulunites , a leader , Elizaphan son of Parnach ; 34:26 from the tribe of the Issacharites , a leader , Paltiel son of Azzan ; 34:27 from the tribe of the Asherites , a leader , Ahihud son of Shelomi ; 34:28 and from the tribe of the Naphtalites , a leader , Pedahel son of Ammihud .” 34:29 These are the ones whom the Lord commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan .

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  • This chapter records how Abram, though threatened with major conflict with Lot because of their herdsmen's strife, magnanimously gave his nephew his choice of what land he wanted. Lot took an area that was very fertile, thoug...
  • To formulate a statement that summarizes the teaching of this book it will be helpful to identify some of the major revelations in Numbers. These constitute the unique values of the book.The first major value of Numbers is th...
  • I. Experiences of the older generation in the wilderness chs. 1-25A. Preparations for entering the Promised Land from the south chs. 1-101. The first census and the organization of the people chs. 1-42. Commands and rituals t...
  • God gave the final laws governing Israel's entrance into the Promised Land (33:50-36:13). However first Moses recorded at God's command this list of places from which the Israelites had set out on their journey from Egypt to ...
  • "The section breaks down into two groups of three laws each, carefully introduced by the clause and Yahweh spoke to Moses' (. . ., 33:50; 34:1, 16; 35:1, 9; cf. 36:6) and surrounded by the phrase on the plains of Moab by the ...
  • This brief section of instructions introduces specific directions concerning the division of the land and its towns that follow in chapters 34-36.The repetition of "all"(v. 52) stresses the importance of completely clearing t...
  • Moses described the border of the land from south (vv. 3-5) to west (v. 6) to north (vv. 7-9) to east (v. 12). This boundary encompassed the territory the people would divide among the nine and one-half tribes. This was not t...
  • This is the sixth and last message that Ezekiel received from the Lord the night before the refugees reached the exiles with the message that Jerusalem had fallen (cf. 33:21-22). It too deals with God's plans for Israel in th...
  • God promised Abraham that He would give a particular piece of real estate to his descendants (Gen. 12:7). Later He reiterated this promise and became more specific about its boundaries (Gen. 15:7, 18-21; 17:8; Num. 34:1-12). ...
  • "There are two special areas of attention in this passage: (1) the concern that God's people occupy their full boundaries, and (2) the concern that Gentiles will have an inheritance."57447:13-14 The Lord instructed the future...
  • The sailors interrogated Jonah about his reasons for travelling on their ship, but it was his failure to live consistently with his convictions that amazed them.1:7 It appears to have been common among the heathen to cast lot...
  • The scene continues to be on earth.7:1 The phrase "after this"(Gr. meta touto) indicates that what follows is a new vision (cf. 4:1). The general chronological progression of the visions suggests that the events John saw now ...
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