VERSE STUDY • KJV

Genesis 2:13

And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

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And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.

and the name of the second river is Gibon, it is that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;

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;

12 And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone.

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.

15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

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