Genesis 2:11
Context2:11 The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through 1 the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 10:7
Context10:7 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
Context10:29 Ophir, 9 Havilah, 10 and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.


[2:11] 1 tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”
[10:7] 2 sn The descendants of Seba settled in Upper Egypt along the Nile.
[10:7] 3 sn The Hebrew name Havilah apparently means “stretch of sand” (see HALOT 297 s.v. חֲוִילָה). Havilah’s descendants settled in eastern Arabia.
[10:7] 4 sn The descendants of Sabtah settled near the western shore of the Persian Gulf in ancient Hadhramaut.
[10:7] 5 sn The descendants of Raamah settled in southwest Arabia.
[10:7] 6 sn The descendants of Sabteca settled in Samudake, east toward the Persian Gulf.
[10:7] 7 sn Sheba became the name of a kingdom in southwest Arabia.
[10:7] 8 sn The name Dedan is associated with àUla in northern Arabia.
[10:29] 3 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).