OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 19:34

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The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.

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Verse 34. Juda was in possession of the southern parts of the Jordan, as Nephthali had the northern, so that by means of navigation they might enjoy the riches ( Calmet.) of each other, and of the other tribes. Bible. Deuteronomy 33:23.—Septuagint do not read Juda, which forms all the difficulty, as five tribes lay between these two. They have “and the Jordan is towards the rising sun.” Calmet.—Grabe inserts, with a star, “to Juda, the Jordan,” and so forth intimating that to Juda, was not a part of the Septuagint version.

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