Genesis 2:10

In 11 translations

BSB

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

KJV

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

WEB

A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.

ASV

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.

LSV

And a river is going out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it is parted, and has become four chief [rivers];

YLT

And a river is going out from Eden to water the garden, and from thence it is parted, and hath become four chief [rivers];

DBY

And a river went out of Eden, to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four main streams.

DRC

And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.

GNV

And out of Eden went a riuer to water the garden, and from thence it was deuided, and became into foure heads.

JPS

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.

LXXE

And a river proceeds out of Edem to water the garden, thence it divides itself into four heads.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

וְנָהָרּ֙ יֹצֵ֣א מֵעֵ֔דֶן לְהַשְׁק֖וֹת אֶת־הַגָּ֑ן וּמִשָּׁם֙ יִפָּרֵ֔ד וְהָיָ֖ה לְאַרְבָּעָ֥ה רָאשִֽׁים׃We read punctuation in L differently from BHS.

LXX-Br

Ποταμὸς δὲ ἐκπορεύεται ἐξ Ἐδὲμ ποτίζειν τὸν παράδεισον· ἐκεῖθεν ἀφορίζεται εἰς τέσσαρας ἀρχάς.

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Part of

• Adam and Eve: the garden and the fall God places the man in Eden and forbids him to eat from one tree. A serpent challenges the death warning; the woman and her husband eat, blam…

Cross-references most cited first

• Revelation 22:1Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
• Psalms 46:4There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

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