Genesis 2:12
That gold ◄is very pure/has no impurities in it►. There is also a sweet-smelling gum called bdellium, and valuable stones called onyx.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
In Context
13The name of the second river is Gihon. That river flows through all the land of Cain.
Cross References
Exodus 28:20In the fourth row he must put a yellow beryl, a red carnelian, and a green jasper.
Numbers 11:7The manna resembled small white seeds.
Ezekiel 28:13You had a wonderful life, as though you were in my beautiful garden in Eden. Your clothes were decorated with many [HYP] kinds of very valuable stones— ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, turquoise, and beryl stones. Those stones were set/placed in gold mountings. They were prepared for you on the day that you were born.
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 →