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The Appointed Boundaries of Canaan

1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Command the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into athe land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance—the land of Canaan to its boundaries.  
3 aYour southern border shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom; then your southern border shall extend eastward to the end of bthe Salt Sea;  
4 your border shall turn from the southern side of athe Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and be on the south of bKadesh Barnea; then it shall go on to cHazar Addar, and continue to Azmon;  
5 the border shall turn from Azmon ato the Brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the Sea.  
6 ‘As for the awestern border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border.  
7 ‘And this shall be your northern border: From the Great Sea you shall mark out your border line to aMount Hor;  
8 from Mount Hor you shall mark out your border ato the entrance of Hamath; then the direction of the border shall be toward bZedad;  
9 the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and it shall end at aHazar Enan. This shall be your northern border.  
10 ‘You shall mark out your eastern border from Hazar Enan to Shepham;
11 the border shall go down from Shepham to aRiblah on the east side of Ain; the border shall go down and reach to the eastern1 side of the Sea bof Chinnereth;  
12 the border shall go down along the Jordan, and it shall end at athe Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries.’ ”  
13 Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: a“This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.  
14 aFor the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.  
Book Notes:
Barnes' Book Notes



Introduction to Numbers

The title commonly given to this book is evidently suggested by the two numberings of the people recorded in Num. 1 and Num. 26.

The book narrates the history of the Israelites during their sojourn in the wilderness from the completion of the law-giving at Sinai, Leviticus 27:34, to their mustering in the plains of Moab for actual entry into the land of promise.

The incidents are generally given in their chronological order, except in the third part. The five chapters comprised in this part appear to deal with a long period, from which only isolated episodes are given; and of these the dates can only be conjectured.

Between the two dates "the first day of the second month of the second year after they were come out of Egypt" Numbers 1:1, and the death of Aaron Numbers 33:38, intervene no less than 38 years and 3 months (compare Deuteronomy 2:14), the long and dreary period of tarrying in the wilderness until the disobedient generation had wasted away.

From the death of Aaron to the date given in the opening verses of Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 1:1-3, occurred a space of exactly six months, in which all the events narrated in the fourth part of the Book of Numbers, from Numbers 20:1 to the end, would seem to have occurred, with the probable exception of the defeat of the king of Arad Numbers 21:1-3.

As regards the authorship and date of composition, the notes of time, the tenor of the contents, no less than the direct assertions of the text itself, lead to the conclusion that Moses is properly spoken of as the writer of the Book of Numbers. It is in substance his work; though many portions of it were probably committed to writing many years before the whole was completed; and the concluding chapters were not written until toward the close of the 40th year after the exodus.

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