The southern boundary began at the Dead Sea. The broad and desolate valley by which the depre ed bed of that sea is protected to the south is calle…

When you come... — Better, You are entering into the land of Canaan; this is the land which shall fall to you for an inheritan…

Then your south quarter
Or border of the land; which, as Jarchi observes, was from east to west:

Canaan was of small extent; as it is bounded here, it is only about 160 miles in length and about 50 in breadth; yet this was the country promised …