Genesis 2:13

2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through ¹  the entire land of Cush. ² 

Genesis 10:7

10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, ³  Havilah, ⁴  Sabtah, ⁵  Raamah, ⁶  and Sabteca. ⁷  The sons of Raamah were Sheba ⁸  and Dedan. ⁹ 

[2:13]  ¹ tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

[2:13]  ² 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.

[10:7]  ³ sn The descendants of Seba settled in Upper Egypt along the Nile.

[10:7]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ sn The descendants of Sabtah settled near the western shore of the Persian Gulf in ancient Hadhramaut.

[10:7]  ⁶ sn The descendants of Raamah settled in southwest Arabia.

[10:7]  ⁷ sn The descendants of Sabteca settled in Samudake, east toward the Persian Gulf.

[10:7]  ⁸ sn Sheba became the name of a kingdom in southwest Arabia.

[10:7]  ⁹ sn The name Dedan is associated with àUla in northern Arabia.