גְּבוּלָה

So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.

“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:

Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

On the east side the border was the Jordan. These were the borders around the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

When they had finished distributing the land into its territories, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them,

Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.

For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.

When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.