THEOSISJerome of Stridon
It will commence from the wilderness of Sin, adjacent to Edom, with the sea marking the eastern limit. In essence, this indicates that the boundary extends from the wilderness of Sin, situated near Edom, to the Red Sea.
Numbers 34:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The south side shall begin from the wilderness of Sin, which is by Edom: and shall have the most salt sea for its furthest limits eastward:
וְהָיָ֨ה לָכֶ֧ם פְּאַת־נֶ֛גֶב מִמִּדְבַּר־צִ֖ן עַל־יְדֵ֣י אֱד֑וֹם וְהָיָ֤ה לָכֶם֙ גְּב֣וּל נֶ֔גֶב מִקְצֵ֥ה יָם־הַמֶּ֖לַח קֵֽדְמָה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 14:3All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the salt sea.
- Ezek 47:13Thus saith the Lord God: This is the border, by which you shall possess the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: for Joseph hath a double portion.
- Josh 3:16The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.
- Josh 15:1Now the lot of the children of Juda by their kindreds was this: From the frontier of Edom, to the desert of Sin southward, and to the uttermost part of the south coast.
- Josh 15:12These are the borders round about of the children of Juda in their kindreds.
- Ezek 47:18And the east side is from the midst of Auran, and from the midst of Damascus, and from the midst of Galaad, and from the midst of the land of Israel, Jordan making the bound to the east sea, and thus you shall measure the east side.
- Ezek 47:23And in what tribe soever the stranger shall be, there shall you give him possession, saith the Lord God.
- Ex 23:31And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you.