In the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,
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- KJV And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
- BSB On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,
- ESV On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris)
- NKJV Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the Tigris,
- NASB On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, while I was by the bank of the great river, that is, the Tigris,
- NLT On April 23, as I was standing on the bank of the great Tigris River,
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- Gen 2:14The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
- Dan 8:2I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
- Ezek 1:3Yahweh’s word came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.
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