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Tanach: Numbers (Bemidbar): Numbers (Bemidbar) Chapter 34

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This is a biblical legal-administrative text: Numbers 34 from the Hebrew Bible (Torah), presented here in parallel columns of the original Hebrew script and its academic transliteration. The chapter records God's instructions to Moses defining the precise territorial boundaries of the land of Canaan that Israel is to inherit — tracing the southern border from the Wilderness of Zin along Edom to Kadesh-barnea, the western border along the Mediterranean Sea, the northern border from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath and Hazar-enan, and the eastern border descending through the Sea of Kinnereth and the Jordan River to the Dead Sea. Moses then conveys that this land is to be distributed by lot among nine and a half tribes, since Reuben, Gad, and half of Manasseh have already received their inheritance east of the Jordan. The chapter closes with God naming the specific leaders — Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun overseeing the process, plus one prince per tribe — charged with executing the land allotment. The text is notable for its legal-cadastral precision, functioning as an official territorial charter with named administrative personnel, and its boundaries largely correspond to what scholars identify as the maximum extent of late Bronze Age Canaan under Egyptian administration.

Tanach: Numbers (Bemidbar): Numbers (Bemidbar) Chapter 34

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