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The S.W. border of the promised land was to be from 'the river of Egypt.' Gen. 15: 18. Here the word is nahar, and would seem to allude to the most eastern branch of the Delta of the Nile, called the Pelusiac mouth. In Num. 34: 5 'the river of Egypt' has the word nachal, signifying a winter torrent, and is supposed to refer to the Wady el Arish, .