Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof : this shall be your west border.

New American Standard Bible

‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your west border.

King James Version

And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

Holman Bible

Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border.

International Standard Version

""The western border is to be the Mediterranean Sea. This is to be the western border.'"

A Conservative Version

And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border [of it]. This shall be your west border.

Amplified

‘As the western boundary you shall have the Great [Mediterranean] Sea and its coastline. This shall be your western boundary.

Bible in Basic English

And for your limit on the west you will have the Great Sea and its edge: this will be your limit on the west.

Darby Translation

And as west border ye shall have the great sea, and its coast. This shall be your west border.

Julia Smith Translation

And the boundary of the sea, and it was to you the great sea; and this shall be the boundary to you, the boundary of the sea.

King James 2000

And as for the western border, you shall even have the Great Sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

Lexham Expanded Bible

" 'Your western boundary will be the Great Sea; this will be your western boundary.

Modern King James verseion

And for the western border, you shall even have the Great Sea for a border. This shall be your west border.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And your west quarter shall be the great sea, which coast shall be your west coast.

NET Bible

"'And for a western border you will have the Great Sea. This will be your western border.

New Heart English Bible

"'For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border: this shall be your west border.

The Emphasized Bible

And, for a west boundary, - ye shall have the great sea, even a boundary, this, shall serve you as west boundary.

Webster

And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

World English Bible

"'For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the border [of it]: this shall be your west border.

Youngs Literal Translation

'As to the west border, even the great sea hath been to you a border; this is to you the west border.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And as for the western
ים 
Yam 
Usage: 396

גּבל גּבוּל 
G@buwl 
Usage: 240

ye shall even have the great
גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

sea
ים 
Yam 
Usage: 396

גּבל גּבוּל 
G@buwl 
Usage: 240

ים 
Yam 
Usage: 396

Context Readings

The Land Of Canaan Is Divided

5 and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the sea. 6 And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof : this shall be your west border. 7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor;

Cross References

Joshua 1:4

From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

Joshua 9:1

And it came to pass, when all the kings that were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;

Joshua 15:12

And the west border was to the great sea, and the border thereof . This is the border of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

Joshua 15:47

Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; unto the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof .

Joshua 23:4

Behold, I have allotted unto you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun.

Ezekiel 47:10

And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

Ezekiel 47:15

And this shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, unto the entrance of Zedad;

Ezekiel 47:20

And the west side shall be the great sea, from the'south border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.

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