Numbers 34:12
Good News Translation
then south along the Jordan River to the Dead Sea. "These will be the four borders of your land."

New Revised Standard Version
and the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and its end shall be at the Dead Sea. This shall be your land with its boundaries all around.

Contemporary English Version
then follow the Jordan River down to the north end of the Dead Sea. The land within those four borders will belong to you.

New American Bible
then the boundary will descend along the Jordan and terminate with the Salt Sea. This will be your land, with the boundaries that surround it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the last shall be closed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its borders round about.

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And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the last shall be closed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its borders round about.

the salt sea

Numbers 34:3 The south side shall begin from the wilderness of Sin, which is by Edom: and shall have the most salt sea for its furthest limits eastward:

Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Genesis 14:3 All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the salt sea.

Genesis 19:24-26 And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. . . .

Context
The Boundaries of Canaan
11And from Sephama the bounds shall go down to Rebla over against the fountain of Daphnis: from thence they shall come eastward to the sea of Cenereth, 12And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the last shall be closed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its borders round about.13And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall be the land which you shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.…
Cross References
Genesis 14:3
All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the salt sea.

Numbers 34:11
And from Sephama the bounds shall go down to Rebla over against the fountain of Daphnis: from thence they shall come eastward to the sea of Cenereth,

Numbers 34:13
And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall be the land which you shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.

Numbers 34:11
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