1: GOD spoke to Moses:
2: "Command the People of Israel. Tell them: When you enter Canaan, these are the borders of the land you are getting as an inheritance:
3: "Your southern border will take in some of the Wilderness of Zin where it touches Edom. It starts in the east at the Dead Sea,
4: curves south of Scorpion Pass and on to Zin, continues south of Kadesh Barnea, then to Hazar Addar and on to Azmon,
5: where it takes a turn to the northwest to the Brook of Egypt and on to the Mediterranean Sea.
6: "Your western border will be the Mediterranean Sea.
7: "Your northern border runs on a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor,
8: and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath, connects to Zedad,
9: continues to Ziphron, and ends at Hazar Enan. This is your northern border.
10: "Your eastern border runs on a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
11: The border goes south from Shepham to Riblah to the east of Ain, and continues along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee.
12: The border then follows the Jordan River and ends at the Dead Sea. "This is your land with its four borders."
13: Moses then commanded the People of Israel: "This is the land: Divide up the inheritance by lot. GOD has ordered it to be given to the nine and a half tribes.
14: The tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance;
15: the two tribes and the half-tribe got their inheritance east of Jordan-Jericho, facing the sunrise." [JC]
16: GOD spoke to Moses:
17: "These are the men who will be in charge of distributing the inheritance of the land: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
18: Assign one leader from each tribe to help them in distributing the land.
19: Assign these: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;
20: Shemuel son of Ammihud from the tribe of Simeon;
21: Elidad son of Kislon from the tribe of Benjamin;
22: Bukki son of Jogli, leader from the tribe of Dan;
23: Hanniel son of Ephod, leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph;
24: Kemuel son of Shiphtan, leader from the tribe of Ephraim son of Joseph;
25: Elizaphan son of Parnach, leader from the tribe of Zebulun;
26: Paltiel son of Azzan, leader from the tribe of Issachar;
27: Ahihud son of Shelomi, leader from the tribe of Asher;
28: Pedahel son of Ammihud, leader from the tribe of Naphtali."
29: These are the men GOD commanded to hand out the assignments of land-inheritance to the People of Israel in the country of Canaan.