Genesis 2:13

The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

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KJV

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

ASV

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.

YLT

and the name of the second river is Gibon, it is that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;

DBT

And the name of the second river is Gihon: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Cush.

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The second river is Gihon, by which, when they were sojourning in Egypt, was laid down the law of the Israelites that they should depart from Egypt, and having girded their loins they should as a sign of temperance partake of a lamb. It is fitting that the chaste and the sanctified should celebrate the Pasch of the Lord. For that reason, the observance of the law was first carried out beside that river, the name of which signifies an opening of the earth.

Ambrose of Milan· On Paradise, 397patristic

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And the name of the second river is Gihon,.... There was one of this name in the land of Israel, which, or a branch of it, flowed near Jerusalem, 1Ki 1:33 this Aben Ezra suggests is here meant, and which favours the notion of the above learned man, that the garden of Eden was in the land of Israel.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Adam's work was so far from being an allay that it was an addition to the pleasures of paradise; he could not have been happy if he had been idle: it is still a law, He that will not work has no right to eat, 2 Thess. iii. The command which God gave to man in innocency, and the covenant he then took him into.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Isaiah 11:11
On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

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The Creation of Eve — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Isaiah 11:11
On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and…
leads to
- Zechariah 10:8–12
  I will whistle for them to gather,for I have redeemed them;and they will be as numerousas they once were.
- Micah 7:12
  On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
- Hosea 3:4–5
  For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
- Isaiah 10:20
  On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy…
- Leviticus 26:40–42
  But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
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Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 1:8–16
  The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- Jeremiah 46:9
  Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth— Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.
- Ezekiel 27:10
  Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls; they gave you splendor.

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