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The black, turbid river (; ; ; SIHOR is the less correct form); . "Shihor which is before (i.e. E. of) Egypt." Not the Nile, which is called "the river" (haeor; ; ; ), and flowed not before but through the middle of Egypt. The Rhinocorura is meant, now wady el Arish, the nachal or "river of Egypt," Canaan's southern boundary toward Egypt, (). In ; ; Sihor means the "Nile".