Numbers 34:3-4

34:3 your southern border ¹  will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the Edomite border, and your southern border will run eastward to the extremity of the Salt Sea, 34:4 and then the border will turn from the south to the Scorpion Ascent, ²  continue to Zin, and then its direction ³  will be from the south to Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon.

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¹ tn The expression refers to the corner or extremity of the Negev, the South.

² tn Or “the Ascent of Scorpions” (עַקְרַבִּים [’aqrabbim] means “scorpions” in Hebrew).

³ tn Heb “its going forth,” or the way it runs.