Parallel Verses

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.

American Standard Version

And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof : 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 where it will turn toward the valley at the border of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean. 6 ‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your west border. 7 The northern border will follow a line from the Mediterranean to Mount Hor

Cross References

Joshua 1:4

From the wilderness and nearby Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun (to the west), shall be your coast.

Joshua 9:1

All the kings west of Jordan heard these things; the kings in the hills, and in the valleys, in all the coasts of the Great (Mediterraean) Sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite heard these things.

Joshua 15:12

The west border was to the coast of the great sea. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

Joshua 15:47

Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, to the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border there.

Joshua 23:4

I have assigned as the possession of your tribes the land of the nations that are still left, as well as of all the nations that I have already conquered, from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

Ezekiel 47:10

From En Gedi to En Eglaim people will be standing on the shore of the sea with their fishing nets spread out. As many kinds of fish will be there as there are in the Mediterranean Sea.

Ezekiel 47:15

This is the northern border for the land: On the north side the border will run from the Mediterranean Sea all the way to Hethlon and Hamath Pass. It will run through the city of Zedad and through

Ezekiel 47:20

On the west side the Mediterranean Sea is the border up to a point opposite Hamath Pass. This is the west side.

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