Genesis 2:13
Context2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through 1 the entire land of Cush. 2
Genesis 10:7-8
Context10:7 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
10:8 Cush was the father of 10 Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.


[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.
[10:8] 5 tn Heb “fathered.” Embedded within Cush’s genealogy is an account of Nimrod, a mighty warrior. There have been many attempts to identify him, but none are convincing.