On the twenty-fourth day of the first month ¹  I was beside the great river, the Tigris. ² 

The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. ¹  The fourth river is the Euphrates.

I will place his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers. ¹ 

Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. ¹  He journeyed ²  to the region of Aram Naharaim ³  and the city of Nahor.