'River' in the Bible

and he sendeth messengers unto Balaam son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River of the land of the sons of his people, to call for him, saying, 'Lo, a people hath come out of Egypt; lo, it hath covered the eye of the land, and it is abiding over-against me;

As valleys they have been stretched out, As gardens by a river; As aloes Jehovah hath planted, As cedars by waters;