Where is the Holy Land? 24 February 2026, 7 Adar 5786.
Do the Borders of the Promised Land stretch from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates?
One Opinion. Quotation.
# The Borders of Israel Promised to Abraham
by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld
https://aish.com/the-borders-of-israel-promised-to-abraham/
Extracts:
in Genesis God promised Abraham the land which was then inhabited by ten nations, spanning from the Euphrates River to the 'River of Egypt,' which most commentators understand to be Wadi el-Arish, a wadi in the north-eastern Sinai Peninsula. Yet to the Children of Israel God many times mentions the land of the seven nations of Canaan (e.g. Deut. 7:1), not ten.
The Midrash explains that lands of the first three of the original ten nations were given to other members of Abraham's family. Specifically, the land of the Keinites was given to Esau's descendants (the nation of Edom), the Kenizzites to Lot's son Moab, and the Kadmonites to his son Ammon. (Those two nations were granted some of Abraham's land in the merit that their father Lot did not betray Abraham to the king of Egypt when Abraham claimed Sarah was his sister (Genesis 12).) (Source: Bereishit Rabbah 44:23, 51:6. See Rashi to Genesis 15:19 and Deuteronomy 2:5.)
This gift to the other nations, however, was temporary. In the Messianic Era Israel will be granted the entire ten lands. This is as Isaiah 11:14 states, 'Edom and Moab will be the reach of their hands, and the Children of Ammon shall obey them.' See also Deut. 12:20, which refers to a much larger Land of Israel in the future, which the Midrash explains will occur when Israel will inherit the lands of the three nations (Sifri there). #
Wikipedia
Wadi al-Arish is a dry riverbed in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. The river, when it flowed, was 250 kilometers long and flowed into the Mediterranean Sea near the town of Arish.[ Wadi al-Arish is considered by some, including geographer Ishtori Haparchi, to be the Brook of Egypt mentioned in the Hebrew Bible that formed the southernmost border of the Land of Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_of_Egypt
The Brook of Egypt ( ....'wadi of Egypt') is a wadi identified in the Hebrew Bible as forming the southernmost border of the Land of Israel.[2] A number of scholars have identified it with Wadi al-Arish,[3] an ephemeral river flowing into the Mediterranean sea near the Egyptian city of Arish, while Israeli archaeologist Nadav Na'aman believes that the landform referenced in the Bible is the Besor Stream, just to the south of Gaza.[4][5] Finally, another traditional Jewish interpretation is that the term refers to the Nile, a view that appears in ancient translations of the Jewish Bible, as preserved in the Neophiti and Vatican manuscripts.
We understand that the River of Egypt is the Nile River.
The Euphrates is the Euphrates River which stretches from the Northeast of Israel to the far north into Turkey.
Some understand the border to only reach up to the Euphrates River at one point. Others understand the border to stretch along all its length.
