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to the south;[a] all the Canaanite territory,[b] from Arah[c] in the region of Sidon[d] to Aphek, as far as Amorite territory;

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 13:4 tn Or “from Teman.” The phrase is especially problematic if taken with what follows, as the traditional verse division suggests. For further discussion see T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 146.
  2. Joshua 13:4 tn Heb “all the land of the Canaanites.”
  3. Joshua 13:4 tc The reading “Arah” assumes a slight emendation of the Hebrew vowel pointing. The MT reads, “and a cave,” or “and Mearah” (if one understands the word as a proper noun).
  4. Joshua 13:4 tn Heb “which belongs to the Sidonians.”