¹ Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

“This is how you will divide this land for yourselves among the tribes of Israel.

They say to the people: ¹  “Journey over to Calneh and look at it! Then go from there to Hamath-Rabbah! ²  Then go down to Gath of the Philistines! Are they superior to our two ³  kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?” ⁴ 

But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,

He marks out the horizon ¹  on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

“Who shut up ¹  the sea with doors when it burst forth, ²  coming out of the womb,

You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again. ¹ 

The Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise! No one can fathom his greatness! ¹ 

Next to the border of Reuben from the east side to the west, Judah ¹  will have one portion.

Next to the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar will have one portion.

It will be a day for rebuilding your walls; in that day your boundary will be extended. ¹ 

The people ¹  buried him in his allotted land ²  in Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

“This will be the border of the land: ¹  On the north side, from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to the entrance of Zedad;

I will set ¹  your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, ²  for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

These will be the allotments for the holy portion: for the priests, toward the north eight and a quarter miles ¹  in length, toward the west three and one-third miles ²  in width, toward the east three and one-third miles ³  in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles ⁴  in length; the sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.

The Lord said to Moses, “Go down and solemnly warn ¹  the people, lest they force their way through to the Lord to look, and many of them perish. ² 

The Lord said to him, “Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the Lord, lest he break through against them.”

For I will drive out ¹  the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet ²  your land when you go up ³  to appear before the Lord your God three times ⁴  in the year.

¹ When the people complained, ²  it displeased ³  the Lord. When the Lord heard ⁴  it, his anger burned, ⁵  and so ⁶  the fire of the Lord ⁷  burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the town of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he will not be guilty of blood,