'Border' in the Bible
and when we cried to Jehovah, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt; and behold, we are at Kadesh, a city at the extremity of thy border.
Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country; we will not pass through fields, or through vineyards, neither will we drink water out of the wells: we will go by the king's road; we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border.
And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron in mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom, saying,
From thence they removed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites. For the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
And the stream of the brooks which turneth to the dwelling of Ar, And inclineth toward the border of Moab.
Let us pass through thy land; we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink water out of the wells; on the king's road will we go until we have passed thy border.
But Sihon would not suffer Israel to go through his border; and Sihon gathered all his people, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
And when Balak heard that Balaam came, he went out to meet him, to the city of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is at the extremity of the border.
And they removed from Kadesh, and encamped in mount Hor, in the border of the land of Edom.
And they removed from Oboth, and encamped in Ijim-Abarim, in the border of Moab.
Then your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside of Edom, and your southern border shall be from the end of the salt sea eastward;
and your border shall turn from the south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin, and shall end southward at Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-Addar, and pass on to Azmon.
And the border shall turn from Azmon unto the torrent of Egypt, and shall end at the sea.
And as west border ye shall have the great sea, and its coast. This shall be your west border.
And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor;
from mount Hor ye shall mark out the entrance to Hamath, and the end of the border shall be toward Zedad;
and the border shall go to Ziphron, and shall end at Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border.
And ye shall mark out for you as eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall strike upon the extremity of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;
and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and shall end at the salt sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.