Brook of Egypt

Nahal HaBesor}}) and nearby streams, with the Bronze and Early Iron Age sites and modern towns of the area. The Brook of Egypt () is a wadi identified in the Hebrew Bible as forming the southernmost border of the Land of Israel. A number of scholars have identified it with Wadi al-Arish, an ephemeral river flowing into the Mediterranean sea near the Egyptian city of Arish, while Israeli archaeologist Nadav Na'aman believes that the Besor stream, just to the south of Gaza, is the landform referenced in the Bible. A related phrase is ('river of Egypt'), used in Genesis . Provided by Wikipedia
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