12 Then the border will go down to the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. This will be your land defined by its borders on all sides.”

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12 Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea.

“‘This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side.’”

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17 The Arabah and Jordan are also borders from Chinnereth[a] as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:17 = the Sea of Galilee; Jos 12:3; 13:27; Lk 5:1

17 Its western border was the Jordan in the Arabah,(A) from Kinnereth(B) to the Sea of the Arabah(C) (that is, the Dead Sea(D)), below the slopes of Pisgah.

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16 and the water flowing downstream stood still, rising up in a mass that extended as far as[a] Adam, a city next to Zarethan. The water flowing downstream into the Sea of the Arabah(A)—the Dead Sea—was completely cut off, and the people crossed opposite Jericho.

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  1. 3:16 Alt Hb tradition reads mass at

16 the water from upstream stopped flowing.(A) It piled up in a heap(B) a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan,(C) while the water flowing down(D) to the Sea of the Arabah(E) (that is, the Dead Sea(F)) was completely cut off.(G) So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.(H)

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