Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 167

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the large you shall increase the pon tions, and to the small you shall lessen the portions. Whatever lot falls to any one shall be his, and apportioned to him in the tribe of his fathers.

55 But if you do not drive out the in- habitants of the land who occupy it, the remainder of them will be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and a torment to you in the land where you reside. And I will do to you as I intended to do to them. @132 Qmmhs uf ily: §r¤miszh Zeno. 34 The Even-L1v1Nc also spoke to Moses to say; Command the children of Israel IO II I2 and say to them; ‘ Now you are come to the land of

Canan;··—the land which has fallen to you to inherit;-··the land of Canan with her surroundings. And they shall be yours on the south side from the Wilderness of Tzin, on the borders of Edom. ‘These are your borders south;

from the end of the Salt Sea eastward ; and along from there your boundary towards the south shall be from the ascent of Akrabim, and across to Tzin, then turn up from the south to Kadesh Barnea, and proceed to the Castle of Adar, and pass over to Atzinar. Then the boundary turning from Atzmon towardsthe River of Mitzer shall proceed to the west, and your boundary shall be the sea, The Great Sea ;—-that shall be your boundary on the west. ‘And this shall be your boundary

on the north; you shall mark out from the Great Sea, at the Hill_of Hills} From the Hill of Hills you shall mark out to the Pass of Khamath, and take a line to the borders of Tzadda. Thence your northern boundary shall start and proceed to Khatzanainan; that shall be your border to the north. ‘ Then you shall mark your eastern

boundary from Khatzar-ainan to Shaf- nah; and the frontier shall run from Shafnah with Riblah onthe east, to Ain, where the line shall descend and extend to the eastern should-er of the Lake of Kineroth. Thence the frontier shall run by the jordan and extend to the Salt Sea. This shall be your country with its surrounding 1 Lebanon.·——F. F. 34-—2g Ely: §\ll¤fmzut uf Qalzsline in ily: jliuz smh a §nlf Erilrzr. Therefore Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying; '1`his is the country which you

shall divide by lot; which the EVER- LIVING has commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes; because the tribe of Reuben have taken for their ancestors' house; and the tribe of the sons of Gad for their ancestors’ house with the house of Ephraim and the half tribe of Manasseh, have taken their share ;—-—these two tribes and the half tribe, have taken their shares before the jordan, opposite jeriko. The Evan-mvruo also spoke to Moses, commanding; 'I`hese two men shall divide the

land for you,-·—A1iazer the priest, and joshua the son of Nun, with one prince from each of the tribes who shall superintend the division of the land; and these are the names of the men; ‘From the tribe ofjudah, Kaleb the son of jefunah.; From the tribe of the sons of

Simeon, Shamuel the son of Amihud; ‘ From the tribe of Benjamin, Alidad the son of Kislon; ‘ From the tribeof the sons of Dan, From the sons of joseph ;-—From

the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, Prince Khanial the son of Afod; From the tribe of the sons of

Ephraim, Prince Kamual, the son of Shiftan; From the tribe of the- sons of

Zebulon, Prince Alizafan, the son of Padnak; 'From the tribe of the sons of

Issakar, Prince Faltiel, the son of Azam; ‘From the tribe of the sons of Asher, Akhihud, the son of Shalmi; 16 18 20 2r 22 26

‘From the tribe of the sons of 28 Naphthali, Prince Fidahl, the son of Amihud; The EVER-L1v1No commands 29 these to divide the land of Canan to thechildren of Israel. Before the jordan, opposite

is evidence that in this allotment we have the actual words of Moses, who wrote his narrative on the eastern side of ) { is a jerusalem editor’s note, written as an explanation for readers on the West og ordan, centuries after the death of Moses.-- . F. 167