Genesis 2:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 46:4 : 4 The river’s channels bring joy to the city of God, the special, holy dwelling place of the Most High.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life– water as clear as crystal– pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

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  • Gen 2:11-16
    6 verses
    82%

    11 The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

    12 (The gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there).

    13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.

    14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

    15 The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

    16 Then the LORD God commanded the man,“You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

  • Gen 2:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8 The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

    9 The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

  • Gen 2:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4 The Creation of Man and Woman This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created– when the LORD God made the earth and heavens.

    5 Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

    6 Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

  • Gen 3:22-24
    3 verses
    72%

    22 And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

    23 So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

    24 When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

  • 4 The water made it grow; underground springs made it grow tall. Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted, while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field.

  • 15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

  • Ezek 47:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7 When I had returned, I noticed a vast number of trees on the banks of the river, on both sides.

    8 He said to me,“These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the rift valley; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh.

  • 10 He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains.

  • 2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

  • Rev 22:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life– water as clear as crystal– pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

    2 flowing down the middle of the city’s main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.

  • Gen 1:9-11
    3 verses
    68%

    9 God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

    10 God called the dry ground“land” and the gathered waters he called“seas.” God saw that it was good.

    11 God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.

  • 6 They are like valleys stretched forth, like gardens by the river’s side, like aloes that the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

  • 16 So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

  • 11 Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots the Euphrates River.

  • 16 Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

  • 15 You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

  • 16 He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.

  • 7 For the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

  • Gen 1:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    6 God said,“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.”

    7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

  • 6 I constructed pools of water for myself, to irrigate my grove of flourishing trees.

  • 8 The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.

  • 4 On the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was beside the great river, the Tigris.

  • 10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

  • 2 He led me out by way of the north gate and brought me around the outside of the outer gate that faces toward the east; I noticed that the water was trickling out from the south side.

  • Gen 11:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1 The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

    2 When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

  • 11 The tree grew large and strong. Its top reached far into the sky; it could be seen from the borders of all the land.

  • 4 Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

  • 7 All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is not full, and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again.

  • 12 On both sides of the river’s banks, every kind of tree will grow for food. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruit fail, but they will bear fruit every month, because their water source flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”