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Summary

Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:

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The river

Joshua 15:4
passing along to Azmon toward the Wadi of Egypt and ending at the sea. This will be your southern border."
Joshua 13:3
from the Shihor east of Egypt as far as the border of Ekron on the north (which is considered part of Canaan). This includes the five rulers of the Philistines, the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, the Ekronites, and the Avvites.
Exodus 23:31
"I'll set your borders from the Reed Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, bringing the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you are to drive them out ahead of you.
Numbers 34:5
Then the border is to turn from Azmon toward the wadi of Egypt and from there to the Mediterranean Sea.'"

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Numbers 34:6
""The western border is to be the Mediterranean Sea. This is to be the western border.'"

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