Genesis 2:13 - The Scriptures 2009

¹³ And the name of the second river is Giḥon, it is the one surrounding the entire land of Kush.

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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

And the sons of Ḥam: Kush, and Mitsrayim, and Put, and Kena‛an.

Genesis 10:8

And Kush brought forth Nimroḏ, he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

Genesis 2:11

The name of the first is Pishon, it is the one surrounding the entire land of Ḥawilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12

And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium is there, and the shoham stone.

Genesis 2:14

And the name of the third river is Ḥiddeqel, it is the one which goes toward the east of Ashshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Isaiah 11:11

And it shall be in that day that יהוה sets His hand again a second time to recover the remnant of His people who are left, from Ashshur and from Mitsrayim, from Pathros and from Kush, from Ěylam and from Shin‛ar, from Ḥamath and from the islands of the sea.