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Adam and Eve, Lucas Cranach the Elder

Genesis 2:11

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve, 1526 · Courtauld Gallery, London · Public domainLucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve, 1526, Courtauld Gallery, London

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Genesis 2:11 (WEB)

The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

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Hippolytus of Rome

  • “…that man, as far as the head only, is Paradise, therefore that “this river, which proceeds out of Edem,” that is, from the brain, “is divided into four heads, and that the name of the first river is called Phison; this is that which encompasseth all the land of Havilath: there is gold, and the gold of that land is…” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 11–14.

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