Numbers Chapter 34 verse 5 Holy Bible
and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the sea.
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And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea.
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And the border shall turn from Azmon unto the torrent of Egypt, and shall end at the sea.
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And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
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And the border shall form a circuit from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and the limits of it shall be at the sea.
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and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
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and the border hath turned round from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its outgoings have been at the sea.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - The river of Egypt, or "brook (נַחַל) of Egypt." Septuagint, χειμά ῤουν Αἰγύπτου. It was a winter torrent which drained the greater part of the western half of the northern desert of the Sinaitic peninsula. It was, however, only in its lower course, where a single channel receives the intermittent outflow of many wadys, that it was known as the "brook of Egypt," because it formed the well-marked boundary between Egypt and Canaan (cf. 2 Chronicles 7:8, and Isaiah 27:12, where the Septuagint has ἕως Ρινοκορούρων, from the name of the frontier fort, Rhinocorura, afterwards built there). So far as we are able to follow the line drawn in these verses, it would appear to have held a course somewhat to the south of west for about half its length, then to have made a southerly deflection to Kadesh, and from thence to have struck north-west until it reached the sea, almost in the same latitude as the point from which it started.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) And the border shall fetch a compass . . . --Although the exact spots of some of the places which determined the southern border have not been positively ascertained, there seems, on the whole, very little doubt that the boundary line ran along the valleys which form a natural division between the cultivated land and the desert, from the Arabah on the east to the Mediterranean on the west, the Brook of Egypt--i.e., the Wady-el-Arish--forming the western boundary until it reached the sea.
