New American Bible, Revised Edition

Numbers 34:10-23 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

10. For your eastern boundary you will draw a line from Hazar-enan to Shepham.

11. From Shepham the boundary will go down to Riblah, east of Ain, and descending further, the boundary will strike the ridge on the east side of the Sea of Chinnereth;

12. 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.

13. Moses also gave this order to the Israelites: “This is the land, to be apportioned among you by lot, which the Lord has commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes.

14. For the tribe of the Reubenites according to their ancestral houses, and the tribe of the Gadites according to their ancestral houses, as well as half of the tribe of Manasseh, have already received their heritage;

15. these two and a half tribes have received their heritage across the Jordan opposite Jericho, in the east, toward the sunrise.”

16. The Lord spoke to Moses:

17. These are the names of the men who shall apportion the land among you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, son of Nun;

18. and you will designate one leader from each of the tribes to apportion the land.

19. These are the names of the men:from the tribe of Judah: Caleb, son of Jephunneh,

20. from the tribe of the Simeonites: Samuel, son of Ammihud;

21. from the tribe of Benjamin: Elidad, son of Chislon;

22. from the tribe of the Danites: a leader, Bukki, son of Jogli;

23. for the descendants of Joseph: from the tribe of the Manassites: a leader, Hanniel, son of Ephod; and