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In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

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Gen. 9:8‑17• ⁸And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
⁹And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
¹⁰and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark--every animal of the earth.
¹¹And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.
¹²And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations:
¹³I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
¹⁴And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,
¹⁵and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth become a flood to destroy all flesh.
¹⁶And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth.
¹⁷And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. (Gen. 9:8‑17)

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Gen. 17:1‑27• ¹And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty *God: walk before my face, and be perfect.
²And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee.
³And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,
⁴It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.
⁵And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.
⁶And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
⁷And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
⁸And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them.
⁹And God said to Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations.
¹⁰This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee--that every male among you be circumcised.
¹¹And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and that shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
¹²And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you--he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed.
¹³He who is born in thy house, and he who is bought with thy money, must be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
¹⁴And the uncircumcised male who hath not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples: he hath broken my covenant.
¹⁵And God said to Abraham, As to Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
¹⁶And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her.
¹⁷And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?
¹⁸And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!
¹⁹And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
²⁰And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
²¹But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.
²²And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.
²³And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money--every male among the people of Abraham's house--and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.
²⁴And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
²⁵And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
²⁶In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son;
²⁷and all the men of his house, born in his house, or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. (Gen. 17:1‑27)

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Gen. 24:7• ⁷Jehovah the God of the heavens, who took me out of my father's house, and out of the land of my nativity, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land--he will send his angel before thee, that thou mayest take a wife for my son thence. (Gen. 24:7)

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2 Sam. 23:5• ⁵Although my house be not so before *God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For this is all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make it not to grow. (2 Sam. 23:5)

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Isa. 55:3• ³Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David. (Isa. 55:3)

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Jer. 31:31‑34• ³¹Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
³²not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.
³³For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
³⁴And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more. (Jer. 31:31‑34)

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Jer. 32:40• ⁴⁰And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not draw back from them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their heart, that they may not turn aside from me. (Jer. 32:40)

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Jer. 33:20‑26• ²⁰Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant in respect of the day, and my covenant in respect of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,
²¹then shall also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.
²²As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
²³And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,
²⁴Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
²⁵Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth,
²⁶then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so as not to take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will turn their captivity, and will have mercy on them. (Jer. 33:20‑26)

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Gal. 3:15‑17• ¹⁵Brethren, (I speak according to man,) even man's confirmed covenant no one sets aside, or adds other dispositions to.
¹⁶But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed; which is Christ.
¹⁷Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. (Gal. 3:15‑17)

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Heb. 13:20• ²⁰But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant, (Heb. 13:20)

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Gen. 12:7• ⁷And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him. (Gen. 12:7)

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Gen. 13:15• ¹⁵for all the land that thou seest will I give to thee, and to thy seed for ever. (Gen. 13:15)

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Gen. 17:8• ⁸And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them. (Gen. 17:8)

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Gen. 26:4• ⁴And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and unto thy seed will I give all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves-- (Gen. 26:4)

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Gen. 28:4,13‑14• ⁴And may he give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, in order that thou mayest possess the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham!
¹³And behold, Jehovah stood above it. And he said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
¹⁴And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Gen. 28:4,13‑14)

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Gen. 35:12• ¹²And the land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. (Gen. 35:12)

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Gen. 50:24• ²⁴And Joseph said to his brethren, I die; and God will certainly visit you, and bring you up out of this land, into the land that he swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. (Gen. 50:24)

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Ex. 3:8• ⁸And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good and spacious land, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (Ex. 3:8)

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Ex. 6:4• ⁴And I established also my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were sojourners. (Ex. 6:4)

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Ex. 23:23• ²³For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off. (Ex. 23:23)

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Ex. 23:27‑31• ²⁷I will send my fear before thee, and confound every people to which thou comest, and will make all thine enemies turn their back to thee.
²⁸And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
²⁹I will not drive them out from before thee in one year: lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
³⁰By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou art fruitful, and possess the land.
³¹And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the river; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, that thou mayest dispossess them from before thee. (Ex. 23:27‑31)

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Ex. 34:11• ¹¹Observe what I command thee this day: behold, I will drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. (Ex. 34:11)

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Num. 34:3• ³Then your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside of Edom, and your southern border shall be from the end of the salt sea eastward; (Num. 34:3)

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Deut. 1:7‑8• ⁷Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the neighbouring places in the plain, in the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the south, and by the seaside, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
⁸Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. (Deut. 1:7‑8)

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Deut. 7:1• ¹When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations from before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou, (Deut. 7:1)

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Deut. 11:24• ²⁴Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall your border be. (Deut. 11:24)

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Deut. 34:4• ⁴And Jehovah said unto him, This is the land that I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. (Deut. 34:4)

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Josh. 1:3‑4• ³Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread have I given to you, as I said unto Moses.
⁴From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the river Euphrates, the whole land of the Hittites, to the great sea, toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border. (Josh. 1:3‑4)

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Josh. 12:1‑20• ¹And these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel smote, and of whose land they took possession across the Jordan, toward the sun-rising, from the river Arnon to mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
²Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the ravine, and over half Gilead, as far as the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
³and the plain as far as the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and as far as the sea of the plain, the salt sea, on the east, toward Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah;
⁴and the territory of Og the king of Bashan, of the residue of the giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
⁵and ruled over mount Hermon, and over Salcah, and over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and over half Gilead as far as the border of Sihon the king of Heshbon.
⁶Moses the servant of Jehovah and the children of Israel smote them, and Moses the servant of Jehovah gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh.
⁷And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side the Jordan on the west, from Baal-Gad in the valley of Lebanon as far as the smooth mountain, which rises toward Seir. And Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions,
⁸in the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the plain, and on the hill-slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the south: the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites:
⁹The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
¹⁰the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
¹¹the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
¹²the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
¹³the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
¹⁴the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
¹⁵the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
¹⁶the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
¹⁷the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
¹⁸the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
¹⁹the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
²⁰the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; (Josh. 12:1‑20)

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Josh. 19:1‑38• ¹And the second lot came forth to Simeon, for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families; and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
²And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, and Sheba, and Moladah,
³and Hazar-Shual, and Balah, and Ezem,
⁴and Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
⁵and Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah,
⁶and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteen cities and their hamlets;
⁷Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan: four cities and their hamlets;
⁸and all the hamlets that are round these cities to Baalath-beer, that is Ramah of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
⁹Out of the lot of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too great for them, and the children of Simeon inherited within their inheritance.
¹⁰And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. And the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid;
¹¹and their border went up westwards, and to Marealah, and reached to Dabbesheth, and reached to the torrent that is before Jokneam;
¹²and turned from Sarid eastward, toward the sun-rising, to the border of Chisloth-Tabor, and went out to Dabrath, and went up to Japhia;
¹³and from thence it passed eastward toward the sun-rising to Gath-Hepher, to Eth-kazin, and went out to Rimmon which reaches to Neah;
¹⁴and the border turned round it northwards to Hannathon: and ended in the valley of Jiphthah-el; …
¹⁵and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Jidalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities and their hamlets.
¹⁶This was the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities and their hamlets.
¹⁷The fourth lot came forth to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
¹⁸And their territory was toward Jizreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
¹⁹and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath,
²⁰and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez,
²¹and Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez;
²²and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh; and their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities and their hamlets.
²³This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their hamlets.
²⁴And the fifth lot came forth for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
²⁵And their territory was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Acshaph,
²⁶and Allammelech, and Amead, and Mishal; and the border reached to Carmel westwards, and to Shihor-libnath,
²⁷and turned towards the sun-rising to Beth-Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el northward to Beth-emek and Neiel, and went out to Cabul on the left,
²⁸and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, as far as great Zidon;
²⁹and the border turned to Ramah, and as far as the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and ended at the sea by the tract of country of Achzib;
³⁰and Ummah, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities and their hamlets.
³¹This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities and their hamlets.
³²The sixth lot came forth to the children of Naphtali, for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
³³And their border was from Heleph, from the oak of Zaanannim; and Adami-nekeb and Jabneel to Lakkum; and ended at the Jordan;
³⁴and the border turned westwards to Aznoth-Tabor, and went out from thence to Hukkok, and reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah upon Jordan towards the sun-rising.
³⁵And the fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
³⁶and Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
³⁷and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-Hazor,
³⁸and Jiron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh: nineteen cities and their hamlets. (Josh. 19:1‑38)

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1 Kings 4:21• ²¹And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. (1 Kings 4:21)

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2 Chron. 9:26• ²⁶And he ruled over all the kings from the river as far as the land of the Philistines, and up to the border of Egypt. (2 Chron. 9:26)

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Neh. 9:8• ⁸and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites,--to give it to his seed; and thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous. (Neh. 9:8)

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Psa. 105:11• ¹¹Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance; (Psa. 105:11)

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Num. 34:5• ⁵And the border shall turn from Azmon unto the torrent of Egypt, and shall end at the sea. (Num. 34:5)

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Josh. 15:4• ⁴and passed on to Azmon, and went out by the torrent of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. That shall be your border southward. (Josh. 15:4)

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Isa. 27:12• ¹²And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah shall beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, ye children of Israel. (Isa. 27:12)

Euphrates.

Gen. 2:14• ¹⁴And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which flows forward toward Asshur. And the fourth river, that is Euphrates. (Gen. 2:14)

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2 Sam. 8:3• ³And David smote Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion by the river Euphrates. (2 Sam. 8:3)

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1 Chron. 5:9• ⁹and eastward he dwelt as far as the entrance to the wilderness from the river Euphrates; for their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead. (1 Chron. 5:9)

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On the same day Jehovah madec a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the riverd of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;

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Lit. "cut," the regular idiom.

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Some read "torrent."