Genesis 2:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Cush.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ The second river is named Gihon; it is the one flowing around the whole land of Cush.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.

Common English Bible

¹³ The name of the second river is the Gihon. It flows around the entire land of Cush.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

Genesis 10:8

Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.

Genesis 2:11

The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2:12

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

Genesis 2:14

And the name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Isaiah 11:11

In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant which is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.