⁶ “For the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its^[a] coast. This shall be your western border.

²⁰ “On the west side, the Great Sea shall be the boundary to a point ^(A)opposite Lebo-hamath. This shall be the west side.

¹⁵ “This shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side, from ^(A)the Great Sea ^(B)by way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, and on to ^(C)Zedad,^[a]

¹⁰ Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From ^(A)Engedi to ^(B)Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of ^(C)the Great Sea.^[a]

⁴ Behold, ^(A)I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.

^47 (A)Ashdod, its towns and its villages; ^(B)Gaza, its towns and its villages; to ^(C)the Brook of Egypt, and ^(D)the Great Sea with its coastline.

¹² And the west boundary was ^(A)the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary around the people of Judah according to their clans.

The Gibeonite Deception

9 As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan ^(A)in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast ^(B)of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, ^(C)the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,

^4 (A)From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.