“ ‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.
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“ ‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.
World English Bible
Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.
The Bible draws the borders of the Promised Land at least three different ways. Genesis 15:18 and Exodus 23:31 stretch from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates; Numbers 34 carves out a much smaller box basically the size of Canaan; and Ezekiel 47 draws a third map with Damascus on the northern edge and the Dead Sea region to the south.
Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.
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"Numbers 34:7 — Scripture Analysis" GEBible, https://gebible.app/analysis/verse/numbers/34/7?version=WEB (retrieved 27 August 2026).