Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is Tigris. It flows east of the city of Asshur. The name of the fourth river is Euphrates.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
13The name of the second river is Gihon. That river flows through all the land of Cain.
15Yahweh God took the man and put him in Eden park/garden to till/cultivate it and take care of it.
Cross References
Genesis 10:11From there he went with others to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
Genesis 15:18And on that day Yahweh made an agreement with Abram. Yahweh told him, “I will give to your descendants all the land between the river that is on the eastern border of Egypt to the south, and north to the huge Euphrates River.
Deuteronomy 1:7So now continue traveling. Go to the hilly area where the Amor people-group lives and to the nearby areas—to the Jordan River Valley, to the hilly region, to the western ◄foothills/hills at the bottom of the mountains►, to the desert area to the south, to the Mediterranean Seacoast, to all of Canaan land, to the Lebanon Mountains, and northeast to the great Euphrates River.
Daniel 10:4When those three weeks ended, on April 23, my companions and I were standing on the bank of the great Tigris River.
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 →