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¹And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Command the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you come to the land of Canaan, this is the land that will fall to you as a legacy, the land of Canaan by its borders: ³And the southern side for you shall be from the wilderness of Zin next to Edom, and the southern border for you shall be from the edge of the Dead Sea to the east. ⁴And the border for you shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabim and will pass to Zin, and its extent shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and it shall go out to Hazar-addar and pass to Azmon. ⁵And the border shall turn from Azmon to the Wadi of Egypt, and its extent shall be to the sea. ⁶And the western border: and the big sea shall be a border for you. This shall be the western border for you. ⁷And this shall be the northern border for you: you shall mark from the big sea to Mount Hor, from Mount Hor you shall mark to the entrance of Hamath, and the border’s extent shall be to Zedad, ⁹and the border shall go out to Ziphron, and its extent shall be to Hazar-enan. This shall be the northern border for you. ¹⁰And you shall mark for the border to the east from Hazar-enan to Shepham, ¹¹and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah at the east of Ain, and the border shall go down and rub on the shoulder of the Sea of Kinneret on the east, ¹²and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its extent will be to the Dead Sea. This shall be the land for you by its borders all around.”

¹³And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the land that you shall give as legacies by lot, which YHWH commanded to give to the nine tribes and the half of a tribe.” ¹⁴Because the tribe of the children of the Reubenites by their fathers’ house and the tribe of the children of the Gadites by their fathers’ house had taken and half of the tribe of Manasseh had taken their legacy. ¹⁵The two tribes and the half of a tribe had taken their legacy from across the Jordan toward Jericho on the east side—to the east.

^l6And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁷“These are the names of the people who will give the land as legacies to you: Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua son of Nun; ^l8and you shall take one chieftain for each tribe to give the land as legacies. ¹⁹And these are the people’s names: For the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh. ²⁰And for the tribe of the children of Simeon, Samuel son of Ammihud. ²¹For the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon. ²²And for the tribe of the children of Dan, a chieftain, Bukki son of Jogli. ²³For the children of Joseph: for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, a chieftain, Hanniel son of Ephod; ²⁴and for the tribe of the children of Ephraim, a chieftain, Kemuel son of Shiphtan. ²⁵And for the tribe of the children of Zebulun, a chieftain, Elizaphan son of Parnach. ²⁶And for the tribe of the children of Issachar, a chieftain, Paltiel son of Azzan. ²⁷And for the tribe of the children of Asher, a chieftain, Ahihud son of Shelomi. ²⁸And for the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a chieftain, Pedahel son of Ammihud.”

²⁹These are the ones whom YHWH commanded to give the children of Israel legacies in the land of Canaan.