Genesis 2:10-14
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
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 whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 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.
Rivers of Eden (note, the Sumerians also spoke of 4 rivers in their mythology):
- Hiddekel & Euphrates are will known rivers
- Pishon comes from Hebrew "pus" - meaning to jump and run to and fro.
- Gishon comes from Hebrew "giah" - to flow.
- The rivers called Phshon and Gihon are not known in any source. The best explanation for them seems to the the two streams making up the Nile which irrigates the land of Egypt. Note that Egypt is mentioned with the Garden (see Gen 13:10) and that these rivers irrigate the whole land.
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- Manna had the appearance of Bdellium (Num 11:7), which was a food that required no work, like Adam's food in the Garden
- Shoham stones (usually translated Onyx) were part of the ephod of the priest (Ex 28:9,12, Ex 35:9,27).
- In Ezekiel 28:13, the cherub of the Garden of Eden is covered in precious stones including gold and shoham.
- Bdellium may be a precious stone (the Septuagint calls it 'carbuncle, ruby'), Num 11:77 calls it crystal. It is also similar to a word that is an aromatic resin from a tree.
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