Genesis 2:12
And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
In Context
13And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia
Cross References
Exodus 28:20In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows.
Numbers 11:7A Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the colour of bdellium.
Ezekiel 28:13Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone teas thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:9-16
The Garden of Eden. ( b. c. 4004.) 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the… Read the whole commentary →