| 1 | The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: |
| 2 | Command the Israelites, and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan, defined by its boundaries), |
| 3 | your south sector shall extend from the wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom. Your southern boundary shall begin from the end of the Dead Sea on the east; |
| 4 | your boundary shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its outer limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea; then it shall go on to Hazar-addar, and cross to Azmon; |
| 5 | the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Wadi of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the Sea. |
| 6 | For the western boundary, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast; this shall be your western boundary. |
| 7 | This shall be your northern boundary: from the Great Sea you shall mark out your line to Mount Hor; |
| 8 | from Mount Hor you shall mark it out to Lebo-hamath, and the outer limit of the boundary shall be at Zedad; |
| 9 | then the boundary shall extend to Ziphron, and its end shall be at Hazar-enan; this shall be your northern boundary. |
| 10 | You shall mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar-enan to Shepham; |
| 11 | and the boundary shall continue down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; and the boundary shall go down, and reach the eastern slope of the sea of Chinnereth; |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | Moses commanded the Israelites, saying: This is the land that you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe; |
| 14 | for the tribe of the Reubenites by their ancestral houses and the tribe of the Gadites by their ancestral houses have taken their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh; |
| 15 | the two tribes and the half-tribe have taken their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise. |
| 16 | The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: |
| 17 | These are the names of the men who shall apportion the land to you for inheritance: the priest Eleazar and Joshua son of Nun. |
| 18 | You shall take one leader of every tribe to apportion the land for inheritance. |
| 19 | These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh. |
| 20 | Of the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel son of Ammihud. |
| 21 | Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon. |
| 22 | Of the tribe of the Danites a leader, Bukki son of Jogli. |
| 23 | Of the Josephites: of the tribe of the Manassites a leader, Hanniel son of Ephod, |
| 24 | and of the tribe of the Ephraimites a leader, Kemuel son of Shiphtan. |
| 25 | Of the tribe of the Zebulunites a leader, Eli-zaphan son of Parnach. |
| 26 | Of the tribe of the Issacharites a leader, Paltiel son of Azzan. |
| 27 | And of the tribe of the Asherites a leader, Ahihud son of Shelomi. |
| 28 | Of the tribe of the Naphtalites a leader, Pedahel son of Ammihud. |
| 29 | These were the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance for the Israelites in the land of Canaan. |