Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that [is,] the Tigris,

From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

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

(They dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, which [is] east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria.) He died in the presence of all his brethren.

On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates --

'Turn and take your journey, 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."