Numbers 34:6
New International Version
“’Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.

New Living Translation
“Your western boundary will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.

English Standard Version
“For the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast. This shall be your western border.

Berean Standard Bible
Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

King James Bible
And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

New King James Version
‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border.

New American Standard Bible
‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your western border.

NASB 1995
As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your west border.

NASB 1977
‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your west border.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘And as for the west border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your west border.

Amplified Bible
‘As the western boundary you shall have the Great [Mediterranean] Sea and its coastline. This shall be your western boundary.

Christian Standard Bible
Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border.

American Standard Version
And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this shall be your west border.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the border of the sea shall be yours, the Great Sea and its border, this shall be your border of the sea.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye shall have your border on the west, the great sea shall be the boundary: this shall be to you the border on the west.

Contemporary English Version
The western border will be the Mediterranean Sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same shall be the end thereof.

English Revised Version
And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this shall be your west border.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"The western border is the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.

Good News Translation
"The western border will be the Mediterranean Sea.

International Standard Version
"'The western border is to be the Mediterranean Sea. This is to be the western border.'"

JPS Tanakh 1917
And for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your west border.

Literal Standard Version
As for the west border, even the Great Sea has been a border to you; this is the west border to you.

Majority Standard Bible
Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

New American Bible
For your western boundary you will have the Great Sea with its coast; this will be your western boundary.

NET Bible
"'And for a western border you will have the Great Sea. This will be your western border.

New Revised Standard Version
For the western boundary, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast; this shall be your western boundary.

New Heart English Bible
"'For the western border, the Great Sea shall be a border to you; this shall be your west border.

Webster's Bible Translation
And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

World English Bible
“‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.

Young's Literal Translation
'As to the west border, even the great sea hath been to you a border; this is to you the west border.

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Context
The Boundaries of Canaan
5where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea. 6Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west. 7Your northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,…

Cross References
Numbers 34:5
where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.

Numbers 34:7
Your northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,

Joshua 9:1
Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan--those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)--

Joshua 15:12
And the western border was the coastline of the Great Sea. These are the boundaries around the clans of the descendants of Judah.

Ezekiel 47:10
Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

Ezekiel 47:20
And on the west side, the Great Sea will be the boundary up to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This will be the western boundary.


Treasury of Scripture

And as for the western border, you shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

Joshua 9:1
And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;

Joshua 15:12,47
And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families…

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(6) And as for the western border . . . --Better, And as for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and (its) border (i.e., its coast). (See Joshua 15:47. "the great sea and the border thereof.")

Verse 6. - And as for the western border. The Hebrew word for "west" (יָם) is simply that for "sea," because the Jews in their own land always had the sea on their west. Thus the verse reads literally, "And the sea boundary shall be to you the great sea and boundary; this shall be to you the sea boundary." It would seem very unlikely that the Jews familiarly used the word "yam" for "west" after a residence of several centuries in a country where the sun set not over the sea, but over the desert. Nothing can of course be proved kern the use of the word here, but it cannot be overlooked as one small indication that the language of this passage at any rate is the language of an age subsequent to the conquest of Canaan (see on Exodus 10:19; 26:22, and Numbers 2:18) The line of coast from the brook of Egypt to the Leontes was upwards of 160 miles in length.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Your western
יָ֔ם (yām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

border
וּגְב֣וּל (ū·ḡə·ḇūl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed

will be
וְהָיָ֥ה (wə·hā·yāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

the coastline
וּגְב֑וּל (ū·ḡə·ḇūl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed

of the Great
הַגָּד֖וֹל (hag·gā·ḏō·wl)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

Sea;
הַיָּ֥ם (hay·yām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

this
זֶֽה־ (zeh-)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

will be
יִהְיֶ֥ה (yih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

your
לָכֶ֖ם (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

boundary
גְּב֥וּל (gə·ḇūl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed

on the west.
יָֽם׃ (yām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin


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