Genesis 2:14

The name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Ashur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

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And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

In Context

13The name of the second river is Gihon. This one flows throughout the whole land of Cush.

15Yahweh God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and to maintain it.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:11Out of that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

Genesis 15:18On that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I hereby give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—

Deuteronomy 1:7Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there in the plain of the Jordan River valley, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Negev, and by the seashore—the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the Euphrates.

Daniel 10:4On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was beside the great river (that is, the Tigris),

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 →

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