◄ Genesis 2:13 ►
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Good News Translation
The second river is the Gihon; it flows around the country of Cush.

New Revised Standard Version
The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush.

Contemporary English Version
The second is the Gihon River that winds through Ethiopia.

New American Bible
The name of the second river is the Gihon; it is the one that winds all through the land of Cush.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.

Gihon.

Ethiopia.

Genesis 10:6 And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.

Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.

Context
Man and Woman in the Garden
…12And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone. 13And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.14And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.…
Cross References
Genesis 2:11
The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.

Genesis 2:12
And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.

Genesis 2:14
And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

Genesis 2:12
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