Genesis 2:11

In 11 translations

BSB

The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

KJV

The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

WEB

The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

ASV

The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

LSV

the name of the first [is] Pison, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Havilah where the gold [is],

YLT

the name of the one [is] Pison, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of the Havilah where the gold [is],

DBY

The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.

DRC

The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.

GNV

The name of one is Pishon: the same compasseth the whole land of Hauilah, where is golde.

JPS

The name of the first is Pishon; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

LXXE

The name of the one, Phisom, this it is which encircles the whole land of Evilat, where there is gold.

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Original-language editions

WLC

שֵׁ֥ם הָֽאֶחָ֖ד פִּישׁ֑וֹן ה֣וּא הַסֹּבֵ֗ב אֵ֚ת כָּל־אֶ֣רֶץ הַֽחֲוִילָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֖ם הַזָּהָֽב׃

LXX-Br

Ὄνομα τῷ ἑνὶ, Φισῶν· οὗτος ὁ κυκλῶν πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν Εὐιλάτ· ἐκεῖ οὗ ἐστι τὸ χρυσίον.

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• 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

• Genesis 25:18Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
• 1 Samuel 15:7Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
• Genesis 10:29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
• Genesis 10:7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

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