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Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.
Genesis 2:11 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 2:11 in other translations
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
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In context
8 And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.
9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.
11 The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the 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: this river goes round all the land of Cush.
14 And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
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