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Exodus 23:31
New English Translation
Exodus 23:31
New English Translation
31 I will set[a] your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River,[b] for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
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- Exodus 23:31 tn The form is a perfect tense with vav consecutive.
- Exodus 23:31 tn In the Hebrew Bible “the River” usually refers to the Euphrates (cf. NASB, NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT). There is some thought that it refers to a river Nahr el Kebir between Lebanon and Syria. See further W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:447; and G. W. Buchanan, The Consequences of the Covenant (NovTSup), 91-100.
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