Genesis 2:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ but a stream would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground—

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But there went up a mist (fog, vapor) from the land and watered the whole surface of the ground–

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Common English Bible

⁶ though a stream rose from the earth and watered all of the fertile land—

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But a fountain ascended from the earth, irrigating the entire surface of the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ But a spring rose out the earth, watering all the surface of the earth.

Genesis 2:6 Cross References

Genesis 2:5

when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no vegetation of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground,

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Psalm 135:7

He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.