Verse 7
"And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor; from mount Hor ye shall mark out unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border."
The indefinite nature of this boundary derives from the fact that the precise point on the Mediterranean where this "marking" was to begin is not given. Also, "the Mount Hor" here cannot be the one in Numbers 20:22, therefore unknown.[3] It is also uncertain as to how far eastward the boundary reached. Gray thought it came to the vicinity of Damascus.[4] Thompson placed the eastern terminus of the northern border near the headwaters of the Orontes river,[5] but the exact location is unknown.
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