Numbers 34:2

34:2 “Give these instructions to the Israelites, and tell them: ‘When you enter Canaan, the land that has been assigned to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan with its borders,

Leviticus 14:34

14:34 “When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give to you for a possession, and I put a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess,

Leviticus 25:2

25:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:9

12:9 for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 19:1-2

Laws Concerning Manslaughter

19:1 When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses, 19:2 you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.


tn Or “command.”

tn Heb “this is the land that will fall to you as an inheritance.”

tn Heb “which I am giving” (so NAB, NIV).

tn Heb “give.”

tn Heb “in the house of the land of your possession” (KJV and ASV both similar).

tn Heb “the land shall rest a Sabbath.”

tn Heb “rest.”

tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

sn These three cities, later designated by Joshua, were Kedesh of Galilee, Shechem, and Hebron (Josh 20:7-9).