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    CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR THROWS BIBLE UNDER THE BUS

     
    http://news.yahoo.com/israels-self-defense-argument-against-hamas-holds-no-153705349--politics.html
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    Numbers 34:1-15 describes the land allocated to the Israelite tribes after the Exodus. The tribes of Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh received land east of the Jordan as explained in Numbers 34:14-15. Numbers 34:1-13 provides a detailed description of the borders of the land to be conquered west of the Jordan for the remaining tribes. The region is called "the Land of Canaan" (Eretz Kna'an) in Numbers 34:2 and the borders are known in Jewish tradition as the "borders for those coming out of Egypt". These borders are again mentioned in Deuteronomy 1:6-8, 11:24 and Joshua 1:4.

    As for the map, even though it depicts the area of the 12 Tribes of Israel before Rome ruled the area, the fact that they were drawn 1800 years after Rome sacked Jerusalem and renamed Israel "Philistina" after the Philistines (meaning lacking in culture) to humiliate the Israelites is most likely why they titled it "Palestine".

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