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Nile

approximate location

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city known location approximate debated 9 places · 2 outside this view · c. AD 30-62 · modern coastline: harbors have silted up over two thousand years · drag and zoom · Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

WITH EGYPT · ASSYRIA · CUSH 1 · TYRE AND 6 MORE, named in the same passages

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Panorama of the Nile River.

Panorama of the Nile River.

PHOTO: René Hourdry CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons

30 PASSAGES · 9 BOOKS

Genesis 2
Exodus 12
Isaiah 6
Jeremiah 2
Ezekiel 3
Amos 2
Nahum 1
Zechariah 1
Acts 1

COORDINATES 31.4653, 30.3667

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