Genesis 2:14
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.
Genesis 2:14 in other translations
| BSB | The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. |
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| WEB | The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. |
| ASV | And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. |
| YLT | and the name of the third river is Hiddekel, it is that which is going east of Asshur; and the fourth river is Phrat. |
| DARBY | And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which flows forward toward Asshur. And the fourth river, that is Euphrates. |
| BBE | And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. |
| Webster | And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: which floweth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. |
What does Genesis 2:14 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 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…
Genesis 2:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 2:14
- Daniel 10:4
And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
- Genesis 15:18
In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Genesis 10:22
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
- Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
- Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
- Genesis 10:11
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
- Genesis 25:18
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
- Revelation 9:14
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
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Context
- Genesis 2:13
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
- Genesis 2:14
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.
- Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 2:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y el nombre del tercer río es Hiddekel: éste es el que va delante de Asiria. Y el cuarto río es el Eufrates. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le nom de la troisième rivière est Hiddékel: c’est elle qui coule en avant vers Assur. Et la quatrième rivière, c’est l’Euphrate. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und der Name des dritten Flusses: Hiddekel; dieser ist es, der vor Assyrien fließt. Und der vierte Fluß, das ist der Phrath. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Nomen vero fluminis tertii, Tigris: ipse vadit contra Assyrios. Fluvius autem quartus, ipse est Euphrates. |