Genesis 2:11

2:11 The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through ¹  the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 10:7

10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, ²  Havilah, ³  Sabtah, ⁴  Raamah, ⁵  and Sabteca. ⁶  The sons of Raamah were Sheba ⁷  and Dedan. ⁸ 

Genesis 10:29

10:29 Ophir, ⁹  Havilah, ¹⁰  and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

Genesis 20:1

Abraham and Abimelech

20:1 Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev ¹¹  region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident ¹²  in Gerar,

Genesis 21:14

21:14 Early in the morning Abraham took ¹³  some food ¹⁴  and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, ¹⁵  and sent her away. So she went wandering ¹⁶  aimlessly through the wilderness ¹⁷  of Beer Sheba.

Genesis 21:21

21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. ¹⁸  His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt. ¹⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

² sn The descendants of Seba settled in Upper Egypt along the Nile.

³ sn The Hebrew name Havilah apparently means “stretch of sand” (see HALOT 297 s.v. חֲוִילָה). Havilah’s descendants settled in eastern Arabia.

⁴ sn The descendants of Sabtah settled near the western shore of the Persian Gulf in ancient Hadhramaut.

⁵ sn The descendants of Raamah settled in southwest Arabia.

⁶ sn The descendants of Sabteca settled in Samudake, east toward the Persian Gulf.

⁷ sn Sheba became the name of a kingdom in southwest Arabia.

⁸ sn The name Dedan is associated with àUla in northern Arabia.

⁹ sn Ophir became the name of a territory in South Arabia. Many of the references to Ophir are connected with gold (e.g., 1 Kgs 9:28, 10:11, 22:48; 1 Chr 29:4; 2 Chr 8:18, 9:10; Job 22:24, 28:16; Ps 45:9; Isa 13:12).

¹⁰ sn Havilah is listed with Ham in v. 7.

¹¹ tn Or “the South [country]”; Heb “the land of the Negev.”

¹² tn Heb “and he sojourned.”

¹³ tn Heb “and Abraham rose up early in the morning and he took.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “bread,” although the term can be used for food in general.

¹⁵ tn Heb “He put upon her shoulder, and the boy [or perhaps, “and with the boy”], and he sent her away.” It is unclear how “and the boy” relates syntactically to what precedes. Perhaps the words should be rearranged and the text read, “and he put [them] on her shoulder and he gave to Hagar the boy.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “she went and wandered.”

¹⁷ tn Or “desert,” although for English readers this usually connotes a sandy desert like the Sahara rather than the arid wasteland of this region with its sparse vegetation.

¹⁸ sn The wilderness of Paran is an area in the east central region of the Sinai peninsula, northeast from the traditional site of Mt. Sinai and with the Arabah and the Gulf of Aqaba as its eastern border.

¹⁹ tn Heb “And his mother took for him a wife from the land of Egypt.”