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RIVER OF EGYPT
Jehovah promised that Abraham’s seed would be given the land “from the river of Egypt” to the Euphrates River. (Gen. 15:18) Commentators generally understand “the river of Egypt” to refer to the “torrent valley of Egypt” now identified with Wadi el-ʽArish of the Sinai Peninsula, which empties into the Mediterranean Sea ninety miles (145 kilometers) E of Port Said. (See EGYPT, TORRENT VALLEY OF.) At 1 Chronicles 13:5 certain translations read “river [shi·hhohrʹ] of Egypt” (NW, La, AS), and this reference also may be to Wadi el-ʽArish. However, another possibility is that both texts refer to a branch of the Nile.—See SHIHOR.
