“On the east side you shall mark out the border from between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, along the Jordan, and along the eastern side of the sea. This is the east side.
Parallel translations
- WEB The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.
- KJV And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
- BSB On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Eastern Sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the eastern boundary.
- NASB “The east side, from between Hauran, Damascus, Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the eastern sea you shall measure. This is the east side.
- NLT “The eastern border starts at a point between Hauran and Damascus and runs south along the Jordan River between Israel and Gilead, past the Dead Sea and as far south as Tamar. This will be the eastern border.
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Quick answer
The eastern boundary follows the Jordan between Israel and the lands to the east, down to the eastern sea. The land's eastern limit is set along familiar landmarks.
Overview
The east side is marked by the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, bordering Gilead and the eastern nations. The river and sea provide natural, recognizable boundaries. The defined inheritance again testifies to God's faithful provision of a settled home for His covenant people.
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- Gen 13:10Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
- Num 32:1Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;
- Job 40:23Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
- Judg 10:8They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years, they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
- Gen 31:47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
- Gen 31:23He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
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