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Water, the [[Text:EBD:River (EBD)|river]] (Ezra 8:21) by the banks of which the [[Text:EBD:Jew (EBD)|Jewish]] [[Text:EBD:Exile (EBD)|exiles]] assembled under [[Text:EBD:Ezra (EBD)|Ezra]] when about to return to [[Text:EBD:Jerusalem (EBD)|Jerusalem]] from [[Text:EBD:Babylon (EBD)|Babylon]]. In all probability this was one of the streams of [[Text:EBD:Mesopotamia (EBD)|Mesopotamia]] which flowed into the [[Text:EBD:Euphrates (EBD)|Euphrates]] somewhere in the north-west of Babylonia. It has, however, been supposed to be the name of a place (Ezra 8:15) now called Hit, on the Euphrates, east of [[Text:EBD:Damascus (EBD)|Damascus]].