verses 8-14 Figure of speech Parecbasis. App-6.
river. the Persian Gulf, known as such to the Accadians, in which the river became four mouths (or heads) at spots where they flowed into the source which received and fed them.
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Genesis 2:10
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.