Genesis 2:13-14

2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through ¹  the entire land of Cush. ²  2:14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. ³  The fourth river is the Euphrates.

[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.

[2:14]  ³ tn Heb “Asshur” (so NEB, NIV).