Genesis 2:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

verses 8-14 Figure of speech Parecbasis. App-6.

Gihon. the river E. of the Tigris. The modern Kerkhah, and ancient Khoaspes, rising in the mountains of the Kassi. Kas has been confused with the Heb, Cush. It is not the African Cush or Ethiopia, but the Accadian kas.

Genesis 2:13

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