Genesis 2:11
Modern Translations
New International Version
The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

New Living Translation
The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.

English Standard Version
The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Berean Study Bible
The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

New American Standard Bible
The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

NASB 1995
The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

NASB 1977
The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Amplified Bible
The first [river] is named Pishon; it flows around the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Christian Standard Bible
The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Contemporary English Version
The first one is the Pishon River that flows through the land of Havilah,

Good News Translation
The first river is the Pishon; it flows around the country of Havilah. (

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The name of the first river is Pishon. This is the one that winds throughout Havilah, where there is gold.

International Standard Version
The name of the first one is Pishon—it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

NET Bible
The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

New King James Version
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

King James 2000 Bible
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which encompasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

New Heart English Bible
The name of the first is Pishon; this is the one which goes around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

World English Bible
The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

American King James Version
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

American Standard Version
The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

A Faithful Version
The name of the first is Pishon, which surrounds all the land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Darby Bible Translation
The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.

English Revised Version
The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Webster's Bible Translation
The name of the first is Pison, which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The name of one is Pishon: the same compasseth the whole land of Hauilah, where is golde.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The first is called Phison, which renneth aboute all the londe of Heuyla.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
The name of the one is Phison he it is that compasseth all the lande of heuila where gold groweth.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
the name of the first [is] Pison, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Havilah where the gold [is],

Young's Literal Translation
the name of the one is Pison, it is that which is surrounding the whole land of the Havilah where the gold is,

Smith's Literal Translation
The name of the one, Pison: it is that surrounding all the land Havilah, where there is gold.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The name of one is the Phison; it is that which runs through all the land of Hevilath, where gold is born;

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The name of one is Pyshon, that goes around to all the land of Khaweela, where there is gold;

Lamsa Bible
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which encircles the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The name of the first is Pishon; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The name of the one, Phisom, this it is which encircles the whole land of Evilat, where there is gold.
















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