OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 15:5

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The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.

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Verse 5. Jordan, where it discharges itself into the Dead Sea, or mixes its waters with the latter; which, as we observe, (Calmet. 5:16,) does not take place for three miles. Bible.—the north-western part of this sea belonged to Benjamin.

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