Genesis 2:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The second river is named Gihon; it is the one flowing around the whole land of Cush.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

The name of the second river is the Gihon. It flows around the entire land of Cush.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And the name of the second river is the Gehon; it is that which runs through all the land of Ethiopia.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.

Genesis 2:13 Cross References

Genesis 10:6

And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

Genesis 10:8

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Genesis 2:11

The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2:12

and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

Genesis 2:14

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

Isaiah 11:11

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.