7 The first month would be the month of Nisan, during which Passover was observed.
8 The Hebrew text has חִדָּקֶל (hiddaqel). “Tigris” appears here in the , since it is the Greek name for this river. Elsewhere in the OT “the great river” refers to the Euphrates (e.g., Gen 15:18; Josh 1:4), leading some interpreters to think that a mistake is involved in using the expression to refer to the Tigris. But it is doubtful that the expression had such a fixed and limited usage. The , however, does render the word here by “Euphrates” (. perat) in keeping with biblical usage elsewhere.

In other versions

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris)

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,

On April 23, as I was standing on the bank of the great Tigris River,

And then on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I myself was on the bank of the great river; that is, the Tigris.

And 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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