Guiding Questions: Numbers 34

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This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

Do the boundaries of the land to be Israel’s include territory east of the Jordan?
What is the “great sea” (Numbers 34:6)?
Are these “boundaries” identical with earlier descriptions of the area to be conquered?
And, how many tribes are to divide the land by lot (Numbers 34:13-15)?
The supervisors of the land distribution are _________? (Numbers 34:17 et seq)
Is the sequence of the tribal leaders identical with the sequence at the beginning of Bemidbar?
Is there any indication of when the lots are to be cast for the land distribution?

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