Genesis 2:12
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
KJV
et aurum terræ illius optimum est ; ibi invenitur bdellium, et lapis onychinus.
Vulgate
τὸ δὲ χρυσίον τῆς γῆς ἐκείνης καλόν· καὶ ἐκεῖ ἐστιν ὁ ἄνθραξ καὶ ὁ λίθος ὁ πράσινος.
LXX
and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
ASV
וּֽ/זֲהַ֛ב הָ/אָ֥רֶץ הַ/הִ֖וא ט֑וֹב שָׁ֥ם הַ/בְּדֹ֖לַח וְ/אֶ֥בֶן הַ/שֹּֽׁהַם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶ֣בֶן
'bn
noun · 267×
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
בְּדֹ֖לַח
bdlch
noun · 2×
ה
h
adverb · 827×
ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
זָהָ֖ב
zhb
noun · 388×
ט֣וֹב
tvb
verb · 562×
שֹׁ֖הַם
shhm
noun · 11×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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The four rivers flowing from Eden represent the four cardinal virtues: prudence, temperance, courage, and justice. The river that divides into four streams is generic Virtue (arete), which is one in essence but manifests in these four particular forms. Philo uses this allegory to argue that Moses anticipated the best insights of Greek philosophy, since Plato himself taught thes…
Cross-references
- Exod 28:20 — And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
- Exod 39:13 — And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
- Ezek 28:13 — Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
- Job 28:16 — It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- Num 11:7 — And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
- Num 11:7 — And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.