Jacob’s Vow at Bethel

¹⁰ Now Jacob ^(A)went out from Beersheba and went toward ^(B)Haran. ¹¹ So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. ¹² Then he ^(C)dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there ^(D)the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

^13 (E)And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: ^(F)“I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; ^(G)the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. ¹⁴ Also your ^(H)descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad ^(I)to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and ^(J)in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. ¹⁵ Behold, ^(K)I am with you and will ^(L)keep^[a] you wherever you go, and will ^(M)bring you back to this land; for ^(N)I will not leave you ^(O)until I have done what I have spoken to you.”

The Appointed Boundaries of Canaan

34 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Command the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into ^(A)the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance—the land of Canaan to its boundaries. ^3 (B)Your southern border shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom; then your southern border shall extend eastward to the end of ^(C)the Salt Sea; ⁴ your border shall turn from the southern side of ^(D)the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and be on the south of ^(E)Kadesh Barnea; then it shall go on to ^(F)Hazar Addar, and continue to Azmon; ⁵ the border shall turn from Azmon ^(G)to the Brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the Sea.

⁶ ‘As for the ^(H)western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border.

⁷ ‘And this shall be your northern border: From the Great Sea you shall mark out your border line to ^(I)Mount Hor; ⁸ from Mount Hor you shall mark out your border ^(J)to the entrance of Hamath; then the direction of the border shall be toward ^(K)Zedad; ⁹ the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and it shall end at ^(L)Hazar Enan. This shall be your northern border.

¹⁰ ‘You shall mark out your eastern border from Hazar Enan to Shepham; ¹¹ the border shall go down from Shepham ^(M)to Riblah on the east side of Ain; the border shall go down and reach to the eastern ^[a]side of the Sea ^(N)of Chinnereth; ¹² the border shall go down along the Jordan, and it shall end at ^(O)the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries.’ ”