Genesis 2:11
The 1st river was called Pishon. It flowed around the land called Havilah. In that country there was lots of gold.
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12It was really good gold. And there were pretty stones and good perfumes there too.
Cross References
Genesis 10:29and the Ofir mob, and the Havilah mob, and the Jobab mob.
1 Samuel 15:7Then Saul and his men chased the Amalek mob from the place called Havilah in the east to the place called Shur in the west. Shur was half-way between Israel and Egypt.
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 →