Genesis 2:12-13

2:12 (The gold of that land is pure; ¹  pearls ²  and lapis lazuli ³  are also there). 2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through ⁴  the entire land of Cush. ⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “good.”

² tn The Hebrew term translated “pearls” may be a reference to resin (cf. NIV “aromatic resin”) or another precious stone (cf. NEB, NASB, NRSV “bdellium”).

³ tn Or “onyx.”

⁴ tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

⁵ sn Cush. In the Bible the Hebrew word כּוּשׁ (kush, “Kush”) often refers to Ethiopia (so KJV, CEV), but here it must refer to a region in Mesopotamia, the area of the later Cassite dynasty of Babylon. See Gen 10:8 as well as E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 20.