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Their border on the south started from the south end of the Dead Sea,[a] from the bay[b] that faces south.

It goes south from the Ascent of Akrabbim and crosses over to Zin and ascends from south of Kadesh Barnea.

Then it crosses over to Hezron and ascends to Adar and curves around to Karka.

Then it crosses over to Azmon and goes out to the Stream of Egypt.[c]

The border ends at the Mediterranean Sea.

This is your southern border.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 15:2 Hebrew Salt Sea
  2. Joshua 15:2 The Hebrew word lashon, translated bay in this verse and in verse 5, means tongue. Tongue might plausibly refer to a tongue-shaped bay, but there are no noticeable bays or peninsulas on the north and south shores of the sea, so the significance of the term in these verses is uncertain. It may simply mean shore or end.
  3. Joshua 15:4 This is not the Nile but one of the seasonal streams in the wilderness, perhaps at Arish. It is also called the Wadi of Egypt or the Brook of Egypt.