Comentario sobre Números 34:6

ים וגבול These words (apparently unconnected with what follows) mean: AND THE WESTERN BOUNDARY, what forms that?

וגבול ים, as if the Torah had written an introductory line: “how was the westerly boundary?” [clearly, it is difficult to justify these two words. Ed.]

הים הגדול, “the Mediterranean,” known in the author’s time as “the Spanish Sea.” וגבול¸”and the western boundary.” The sea itself is the boundary. (Ibn Ezra).

The islands. From the apparently superfluous word “border,” we include the islands also.

V. 6. הים הגדול וגבול, nach Gittin 8a das mittelländische Meer und ein innerhalb der Grenzen Palästinas fallendes Inselgebiet, הנסין שבים. Von den Amnonsbergen, dem הר ההר des V. 7, der nordwestlichen Spitze der Landesgrenze, ist nämlich eine das ים הגדול von Nord nach Süd durchschneidende Linie bis zum נחל מצרים im äußersten Südwesten (V. 5) zu ziehen. Was innerhalb dieser Linie ostwärts liegt, gehört zu ארץ ישראל, alles außerhalb im Westen dieser Linie liegende zu חוצה לארץ.

והיה לכם הים הגדול THE GREAT SEA SHALL BE UNTO YOU for the boundary.

וגבול, the word “western” is missing. Our sages explain the repetition of this word as small islands in the sea.

וגבול AND THE BOUNDARY — the נסין which are in the sea also belong to the boundary; they are what are called isles in O. F. (Gittin 8a).