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.

And the limits shall fetch a compass from Asemona to the torrent of Egypt, and shall end in the shore of the great sea.

And the border shall turn from Azmon unto the torrent of Egypt, and shall end at the sea.

And the border shall form a circuit from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and the limits of it shall be at the sea.

and the border hath turned round from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its outgoings have been at the sea.

And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea.

and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the Wadi of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.

And its limits shall go around from Azmon to the Torrent of Egypt, and shall end at the shore of the Great Sea.

Praeterea circuibit terminus iste ab Asmon usque ad flumen Aegypti: et erunt illinc egressus ejus ad occidentum.

The river of Egypt - The eastern branch of the river Nile; or, according to others, a river which is south of the land of the Philistines, and fails into the gulf or bay near Calieh.

And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the (b) river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
(b) Which was Nilus, or as some think Rhinocotura.

And the border shall fetch a compass,.... Not go on in a straight line, but turn about:
from Azmon unto the river of Egypt; the river Nile, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; but Aben Ezra seems to deny that that river is meant: and some think that Rhinocolura, which flows into the Mediterranean sea, is meant; or the "valley of Egypt", Casiotis, which divided Judea from Egypt, as follows:
and the goings out of it; not of the river, but of the border:
shall be at the sea; the above sea, called in the next verse the great sea; all the Targums render it to the west.

river of Egypt--the ancient brook Sihor, the Rhinocolura of the Greeks, a little to the south of El-Arish, where this wady gently descends towards the Mediterranean (Joshua 13:3).

The river of Egypt - Called Sihor, Joshua 13:3, which divided Egypt from Canaan. The sea - The midland sea, called the sea emphatically, whereas the other seas, as they are called, are indeed but lakes.