Genesis 2:13

2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through42 the entire land of Cush.43

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42	tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”
43	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.