Bible in a Year.

On the seventy-ninth day, Numbers 34 defines the borders of the Promised Land and appoints the leaders responsible for distributing it. In Deuteronomy 33, Moses blesses the twelve tribes of Israel, acknowledging God's care for each of them. Psalm 120 opens the Song of Ascents, expressing the cry of those longing for peace amid hostility. It is a day of blessing and anticipation for the inheritance the Lord has prepared.

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2. Command the children of Israel, and then shalt say to them: When you are entered into the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into your possession by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits:

3. The south side shall begin from the wilderness of Sin, which is by Edom: and shall have the most salt sea for its furthest limits eastward:

4. Which limits shall go round on the south side by the ascent of the Scorpion and so into Senna, and reach toward the south as far as Cadesbarne, from whence the frontiers shall go out to the town called Adar, and shall reach as far as Asemona.

5. And the limits shall fetch a compass from Asemona to the torrent of Egypt, and shall end in the shore of the great sea.

6. And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same shall be the end thereof.

7. But toward the north side the borders shall begin from the great sea, reaching to the most high mountain,

8. From which they shall come to Emath, as far as the borders of Sedada:

9. nod the limits shall go as far as Zephrona, and the village of Enan. These shall be the borders on the north side.

10. From thence they shall mark out the bounds towards the east side from the village of Enan unto Sephama.

11. And from Sephama the bounds shall go down to Rebla over against the fountain of Daphnis: from thence they shall come eastward to the sea of Cenereth,

12. And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the last shall be closed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its borders round about.

13. And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall be the land which you shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.

14. For the tribe of the children of Ruben by their families, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the number of their kindreds, and half of the tribe of Manasses,

15. That is, two tribes and a half, have received their portion beyond the Jordan over against Jericho at the east side.

16. And the Lord said to Moses:

17. These are the names of the men, that shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun,

18. And one prince of every tribe,

19. Whose names are these : Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.

20. Of the tribe of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammiud.

21. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chaselon.

22. Of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bocci the son of Jogli.

23. Of the children of Joseph of the tribe of Manasses, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

24. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Camuel the son of Sephtan.

25. Of the tribe of Zabulon, Elisaphan the son of Pharnach.

26. Of the tribe of Issachar, Phaltiel the prince, the son of Ozan.

27. Of the tribe of Aser, Ahiud the son of Salomi.

28. Of the tribe of Nephtali: Phedael the son of Ammiud.

29. These are they whom the Lord hath commanded to divide the land of Chanaan to the children of Israel,.

1. This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God Moses blessed the children of Israel, before his death.

2. And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a fiery law.

3. He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his hand: and they that approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine.

4. Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of Jacob.

5. He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people being assembled with the tribes of Israel.

6. Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.

7. This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O Lord, the voice of Juda, and bring him in unto his people : his hands shall fight for him, and he shall be his helper against his enemies.

8. To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the waters of contradiction :

9. Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,

10. Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.

11. Bless, O Lord, his strength, and receive the works of his hands. Strike the backs of his enemies, and let not them that hate him rise.

12. And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of the Lord shall dwell confidently in him: as in a bride chamber shall he abide all the day long, and between his shoulders shall be rest.

13. To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord be his land, of the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the deep that lieth beneath.

14. Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon.

15. Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits of the everlasting hills:

16. And of the fruits of the earth, and of the fulness thereof. The blessing of him that appeared in the bush, come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.

17. His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the ends of the earth These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the thousands of Manasses.

18. And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thy going out; and Issachar in thy tabernacles.

19. They shall call the people to the mountain: there shall they sacrifice the victims of justice. Who shall suck as milk the abundance of the sea, and the hidden treasures of the sands.

20. And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in his breadth: he hath rested as a lion, and hath seized upon the arm and the top of the head.

21. And he saw his pre-eminence, that in his portion the teacher was laid up: who was with the princes of the people, and did the justices of the Lord, and his judgment with Israel.

22. To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow plentifully from Basan.

23. And to Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance, and shall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea and the south.

24. To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed with children, let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

25. His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so also shall thy old age be.

26. There is no other God like the God of the rightest: he that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither.

27. His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou brought to nought.

28. Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The eye of Jacob in a land of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.

29. Blessed are thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.

1. In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.

2. O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.

3. What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue.

4. The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.

5. Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of cedar:

6. my soul hath been long a sojourner.

7. With them that hate peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.