And in the twenty fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Tigris,

From that land he went forth to Assyria and built Nineveh, the city of Rehoboth and Calah,

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

They settled from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria. He settled in the presence of all his brethren.

On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates;

Turn and set out, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the western Sea, shall be your territory.

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