Genesis Chapter 2 verse 10 Holy Bible
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.
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And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.
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And a river went out of Eden, to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four main streams.
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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden: and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
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A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.
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And a river is going out from Eden to water the garden, and from thence it is parted, and hath become four chief `rivers';
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Genesis 2 : 10 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - The precise locality of Eden is indicated by its relation to the great watercourses of the region. And a river (literally, a flowing water, applicable to large oceanic floods - Job 22:16; Psalm 24:2; Psalm 46:5; Jonah 2:4 - as well as to narrow streams) went out (literally, going out) of Eden to water the garden. To conclude from this that the river had its source within the limits of the garden is to infer more than the premises will warrant. Nothing more is implied in the language than that a great watercourse proceeded through the district of Eden, and served to irrigate the soil. Probably it intersected the garden, thus occasioning its remarkable fecundity and beauty. And from thence (i.e. either on emerging from which, or, taking מן in its secondary sense, outside of, or at a distance from which) it was parted (literally, divided itself), and became into four heads. Roshim, from rosh, that which is highest; either principal waters, arms or branches (Taylor Lewis, Alford), or beginnings of rivers, indicating the sources of the streams (Gesenius, Keil, Macdonald, Murphy). If the second of these interpretations be adopted, Eden must be looked for in a spot where some great flowing water is subdivided into four separate streams; if the former be regarded as the proper exegesis, then any great river which is first formed by the junction of two streams, and afterwards disperses its waters in two different directions, will meet the requirements of the case.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) A river went out of Eden.--Out of the large region of which the garden formed a part. The tenses, too, are present, as if the main features of the country remained unchanged: "a river goeth forth from Eden, and thence outside of it is parted, and becometh four main streams." The idea is that of a stream rising in Eden, and flowing through the Paradise, and at some distance outside of it divided into four great rivers. This has made many suppose that the site of Paradise was in the Persian Gulf, in a region now submerged; and the Babylonian legends actually place it there, at Eridu, at the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates. The two other rivers they suppose to have been the Indus and the Nile, represented by the two coasts of the Persian Gulf. Sir H. Rawlinson suggests the Babylonian province of Gan-duniyas, where four rivers may be found; but in neither case could the ark have floated against the current of the flood up to the highlands of Armenia. We must add that many authors of note have regarded the whole as symbolical, among whom is the famous Syriac writer, Bar-Hebraeus, who regards it as a description of the human body.