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Genesis 2:13

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

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  1. 42 Heb “it is that which goes around.”
  2. 43 Cush. In the Bible the Hebrew word כּוּשׁ (kush, “Kush”) often refers to Ethiopia (so , ), 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 (), .

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

The second branch, called the Gihon, flowed around the entire land of Cush.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And the name of the second is Gihon. It went around all the land of Cush.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

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