Numbers - 34:8

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8 from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 34:8.

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From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
From which they shall come to Emath, as far as the borders of Sedada:
from mount Hor ye shall mark out the entrance to Hamath, and the end of the border shall be toward Zedad;
from mount Hor ye shall mark out unto the entering in of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad:
From mount Hor ye shall designate your border to the entrance of Hamath; and the limits of the border shall be at Zedad:
from mount Hor ye mark out to go in to Hamath, and the outgoings of the border have been to Zedad;
From mount Hor you shall point out your border to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
And from Mount Hor the line will go in the direction of Hamath; the farthest point of it will be at Zedad:
from mount Hor ye shall mark out a line unto the entrance to Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;
from Mount Hor you shall mark out to Lebo Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;
From there, it limits shall advance into Hamath, as far as the limits of Zedad.
Ab hoc monte describetis usque ad introitum Hamach: et erunt eggressus termini illius ad Sedad.

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Historical Commentaries

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From Mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath,.... Antiochia, as Jarchi; or rather Epiphania, as Jerom (r); the former being described by Hemath the great, Amos 6:2, this entrance was a narrow pass leading from the land of Canaan to Syria, through the valley which lies between Lebanon and Antilibanus:
and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad; the same boundary as here is given in Ezekiel 47:15.
(r) Comment. in Ezek. 47. 16.

entrance of Hamath--The northern plain between those mountain ranges, now the valley of Balbeck (see on Numbers 13:21).
Zedad--identified as the present Sudud (Ezekiel 47:15).

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