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Numbers 34:22 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 22. 22And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
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Quick Meaning
Numbers 34:22 within “Eleazar, Joshua, and Ten Leaders Will Divide the Land,” marks where authority is questioned, shared, corrected, or transferred; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
Read It With
- Numbers 34:16–29
Read Numbers 34:22 with 34:16–29. It within “Eleazar, Joshua, and Ten Leaders Will Divide the Land,” marks where authority is questioned, shared, corrected, or transferred; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: The LORD appoints Eleazar and Joshua with one named leader from each receiving tribe to oversee land inheritance, and Moses identifies them in tribal order.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Eleazar, Joshua, and Ten Leaders Will Divide the Land advances Numbers from Sinai's ordered camp through wilderness failure and generational death toward Moab, succession, and land-facing law. Its particular movement is this: The LORD appoints Eleazar and Joshua with one named leader from each receiving tribe to oversee land inheritance, and Moses identifies them in tribal order. At 34:22, the verse within “Eleazar, Joshua, and Ten Leaders Will Divide the Land,” marks where authority is questioned, shared, corrected, or transferred; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
What Remains True
Because Numbers 34:22 within “Eleazar, Joshua, and Ten Leaders Will Divide the Land,” marks where authority is questioned, shared, corrected, or transferred; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli, its proportionate enduring truth is this: Healthy authority shares burden, hears petitions, names failure, plans succession, and does not confuse appointment with exemption from review. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: The commission does not authorize clerical land control, insider dealing, tribal stereotypes, or modern claims to the listed officials' authority.
How It Can Shape Life
- Verse role: Numbers 34:22 within “Eleazar, Joshua, and Ten Leaders Will Divide the Land,” marks where authority is questioned, shared, corrected, or transferred; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli. Contextual meaning: The LORD appoints Eleazar and Joshua with one named leader from each receiving tribe to oversee land inheritance, and Moses identifies them in tribal order. Proportionate enduring truth: Healthy authority shares burden, hears petitions, names failure, plans succession, and does not confuse appointment with exemption from review. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: The commission does not authorize clerical land control, insider dealing, tribal stereotypes, or modern claims to the listed officials' authority. Application: Build succession and complaint systems before crisis, include people with less formal power, and state clearly what no leader may decide alone. For “Eleazar, Joshua, and Ten Leaders Will Divide the Land,” begin with the actors, power differences, and consequences named in this exact unit rather than borrowing a slogan from a neighboring verse.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 34:16–29 — Eleazar, Joshua, and Ten Leaders Will Divide the LandSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 34:16–29, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 34:16–29
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Numbers with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, source files dated 2026-08-08
Supports: Unit-bounded translation, syntax, lexical, ritual, legal, number, name, poetic, and selected textual notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Numbers PDF, complete 134-page PDF, translation and translator notes attached to 34:16–29
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