Genesis 2:10
Good News Translation
A stream flowed in Eden and watered the garden; beyond Eden it divided into four rivers.

New Revised Standard Version
A river flows out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides and becomes four branches.

Contemporary English Version
From Eden a river flowed out to water the garden, then it divided into four rivers.

New American Bible
A river rises in Eden to water the garden; beyond there it divides and becomes four branches.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.

a river.

Psalm 46:4 The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.

Revelation 22:1 And he shewed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Eden.

Context
Man and Woman in the Garden
9And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.11The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.…
Cross References
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Psalm 46:4
The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.

Genesis 2:9
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