Genesis 2:10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

English Standard Version
A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.

New American Standard Bible
Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.

King James Bible
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A river went out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.

International Standard Version
A river flows from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides, becoming four branches.

American Standard Version
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a river went out the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.

Darby Bible Translation
And a river went out of Eden, to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four main streams.

Young's Literal Translation
And a river is going out from Eden to water the garden, and from thence it is parted, and hath become four chief rivers;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

2:8-14 The place fixed upon for Adam to dwell in, was not a palace, but a garden. The better we take up with plain things, and the less we seek things to gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to innocency. Nature is content with a little, and that which is most natural; grace with less; but lust craves every thing, and is content with nothing. No delights can be satisfying to the soul, but those which God himself has provided and appointed for it. Eden signifies delight and pleasure. Wherever it was, it had all desirable conveniences, without any inconvenience, though no other house or garden on earth ever was so. It was adorned with every tree pleasant to the sight, and enriched with every tree that yielded fruit grateful to the taste and good for food. God, as a tender Father, desired not only Adam's profit, but his pleasure; for there is pleasure with innocency, nay there is true pleasure only in innocency. When Providence puts us in a place of plenty and pleasure, we ought to serve God with gladness of heart in the good things he gives us. Eden had two trees peculiar to itself. 1. There was the tree of life in the midst of the garden. Of this man might eat and live. Christ is now to us the Tree of life, Re 2:7; 22:2; and the Bread of life, Joh 6:48,51. 2. There was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, so called because there was a positive revelation of the will of God about this tree, so that by it man might know moral good and evil. What is good? It is good not to eat of this tree. What is evil? It is evil to eat of this tree. In these two trees God set before Adam good and evil, the blessing and the curse.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9. tree of life—so called from its symbolic character as a sign and seal of immortal life. Its prominent position where it must have been an object of daily observation and interest, was admirably fitted to keep man habitually in mind of God and futurity.

tree of the knowledge of good and evil—so called because it was a test of obedience by which our first parents were to be tried, whether they would be good or bad, obey God or break His commands.