On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I was near the great river, that is, the Tigris.

Out of that land he came to Assyria, and built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth Ir, and Calah,

The sons of Shem [were] Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, and Cainan.

And he dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt, until one comes to the Assyrians; he dwelt in the presence of all his brethren.

In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.

Turn and depart, and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and [go] to all that dwell near about Arabah, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Canaanites near the sea, and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.

Every place on which the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness and Lebanon, and from the great river, the River Euphrates, even as far as the west sea shall be your coasts.

saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels having been bound at the great river Euphrates."