Exodus 23:31

I will set ¹  your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, ²  for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

Ge 15:18; Nu 21:34; Nu 34:3-15; De 3:2; De 11:24; Jos 1:4; Jos 8:7,18; Jos 10:8,19; Jos 21:44; Jos 23:14; Jos 24:8; Jud 1:4; Jud 11:21; 1Sa 23:4; 1Ki 4:21,24; 1Ki 20:13; Ps 72:8

¹ tn The form is a perfect tense with vav consecutive.

² 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.