² Their southern border ran from the bay at the south end of the Dead Sea (the Salt Sea), ³ and continued to the south of the ascent of Akrabbim,^[a] crossed the wilderness of Zin, and went up south of Kadesh-barnea, past Hezron, on up to Addar, and then turning toward Karka, ⁴ on to Azmon, then out by the wadi of Egypt, and ending at the Mediterranean Sea. “This,” they were told, “will be your southern boundary.”