The Wilderness Years

And they journey from Iim, and encamp in Dibon-Gad;

and they journey from Dibon-Gad, and encamp in Almon-Diblathaim.

And they journey from Almon-Diblathaim, and encamp in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo;

and they journey from the mountains of Abarim, and encamp in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho.

And they encamp by the Jordan from Beth-Jeshimoth, unto Abel-Shittim, in the plains of Moab.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying,

`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are passing over the Jordan unto the land of Canaan,

then ye have dispossessed all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and have destroyed all their imagery, yea, all their molten images ye destroy, and all their high places ye lay waste,

and ye have possessed the land, and dwelt in it, for to you I have given the land--to possess it.

`And ye have inherited the land by lot, by your families; to the many ye increase their inheritance, and to the few ye diminish their inheritance; whither the lot goeth out to him, it is his; by the tribes of your fathers ye inherit.

`And if ye do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it hath been, those whom ye let remain of them, are for pricks in your eyes, and for thorns in your sides, and they have distressed you on the land in which ye are dwelling,

and it hath come to pass, as I thought to do to them--I do to you.'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Command the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are coming in unto the land of Canaan--this is the land which falleth to you by inheritance, the land of Canaan, by its borders--

then hath the south quarter been to you from the wilderness of Zin, by the sides of Edom, yea, the south border hath been to you from the extremity of the Salt Sea, eastward;

and the border hath turned round to you from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and hath passed on to Zin, and its outgoings have been from the south to Kadesh-Barnea, and it hath gone out at Hazar-Addar, and hath passed on to Azmon;

and the border hath turned round from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its outgoings have been at the sea.

`As to the west border, even the great sea hath been to you a border; this is to you the west border.

`And this is to you the north border: from the great sea ye mark out for yourselves mount Hor;

from mount Hor ye mark out to go in to Hamath, and the outgoings of the border have been to Zedad;

and the border hath gone out to Ziphron, and its outgoings have been at Hazar-Enan; this is to you the north border.

`And ye have marked out for yourselves for the border eastward, from Hazar-Enan to Shepham;

and the border hath gone down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east of Ain, and the border hath gone down, and hath smitten against the shoulder of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

and the border hath gone down to the Jordan, and its outgoings have been at the Salt Sea; this is for you the land by its borders round about.'

And Moses commandeth the sons of Israel, saying, `This is the land which ye inherit by lot, which Jehovah hath commanded to give to the nine tribes and the half of the tribe;