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Genesis 2:11

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

Genesis 2:13

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2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through 2  the entire land of Cush. 3 
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[2:11]  1 tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

[2:13]  2 tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

[2:13]  3 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.



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