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1 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens :

2 Præcipe filiis Israël, et dices ad eos : Cum ingressi fueritis terram Chanaan, et in possessionem vobis sorte ceciderit, his finibus terminabitur.

3 Pars meridiana incipiet a solitudine Sin, quæ est juxta Edom : et habebit terminos contra orientem mare salsissimum.

4 Qui circuibunt australem plagam per ascensum Scorpionis, ita ut transeant in Senna, et perveniant a meridie usque ad Cadesbarne, unde egredientur confinia ad villam nomine Adar, et tendent usque ad Asemona.

5 Ibitque per gyrum terminus ab Asemona usque ad torrentem Ægypti, et maris magni littore finietur.

6 Plaga autem occidentalis a mari magno incipiet, et ipso fine claudetur.

7 Porro ad septentrionalem plagam a mari magno termini incipient, pervenientes usque ad montem altissimum,

8 a quo venient in Emath usque ad terminos Sedada :

9 ibuntque confinia usque ad Zephrona, et villam Enan. Hi erunt termini in parte aquilonis.

10 Inde metabuntur fines contra orientalem plagam de villa Enan usque Sephama,

11 et de Sephama descendent termini in Rebla contra fontem Daphnim : inde pervenient contra orientem ad mare Cenereth,

12 et tendent usque ad Jordanem, et ad ultimum salsissimo claudentur mari. Hanc habebitis terram per fines suos in circuitu.

13 Præcepitque Moyses filiis Israël, dicens : Hæc erit terra, quam possidebitis sorte, et quam jussit Dominus dari novem tribubus, et dimidiæ tribui.

14 Tribus enim filiorum Ruben per familias suas, et Tribus filiorum Gad juxta cognationum numerum, media quoque Tribus Manasse,

15 id est, duæ semis tribus, acceperunt partem suam trans Jordanem contra Jericho ad orientalem plagam.

16 Et ait Dominus ad Moysen :

17 Hæc sunt nomina virorum qui terram vobis divident, Eleazar sacerdos, et Josue filius Nun,

18 et singuli principes de tribubus singulis,

19 quorum ista sunt vocabula. De tribu Juda, Caleb filius Jephone.

20 De tribu Simeon, Samuel filius Ammiud.

21 De tribu Benjamin, Elidad filius Chaselon.

22 De tribu filiorum Dan, Bocci filius Jogli.

23 Filiorum Joseph de tribu Manasse, Hanniel filius Ephod.

24 De tribu Ephraim, Camuel filius Sephthan.

25 De tribu Zabulon, Elisaphan filius Pharnach.

26 De tribu Issachar, dux Phaltiel filius Ozan.

27 De tribu Aser, Ahiud filius Salomi.

28 De tribu Nephthali, Phedaël filius Ammiud.

29 Hi sunt, quibus præcepit Dominus ut dividerent filiis Israël terram Chanaan.

   

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Earth

  
by Brita Conroy

Earth" is a general word that can be thought of as a container for other more specific words, as ground, field, or garden. Each of these means a person in an ascending series as that person learns truths from the Bible, thinks about them, and tries to apply them to life. The series represents the way of becoming good and wise. "Earth" and "ground" are terms that can go either way, as in the parable of the sower (Matthew 13:4-8) there was both good ground and bad ground, but "field" and "garden" mean minds that are regenerating towards good. "Earth" in the Bible can mean a person or a group of like-minded people as in a church. But it refers specifically to the external of the person's mind, or of the general thought of the group. If heaven and earth are mentioned together, then both the internals and externals of the mind are meant – something to note when reading the creation story.

In Revelation the word "earth" is used both as a ground level as we use it in its natural sense and also as the sense of a group. The action in this book takes place in the great middle zone of the spiritual world, where people first go and where they are sorted out. There are both evil people and good there, and sometimes at the end of a church the evil can have great influence before a great judgment comes. This level of the spiritual realm is called the "earth" to which the dragon was cast down (Revelation 12:9) and to which the stars fell (Revelation 12:4). The "earth" that swallowed the dragon’s flood means those still-sincere people within the church who discounted the flood of the dragon's falsities (Revelation 12:15).