Kejadian 2:13-15

2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through ¹  the entire land of Cush. ²  2:14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. ³  The fourth river is the Euphrates.

2:15 The Lord God took the man and placed ⁴  him in the orchard in ⁵  Eden to care for it and to maintain it. ⁶ 

[2:13]  ¹ tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

[2:13]  ² sn Cush. In the Bible the Hebrew word כּוּשׁ (kush, “Kush”) often refers to Ethiopia (so KJV, CEV), but here it must refer to a region in Mesopotamia, the area of the later Cassite dynasty of Babylon. See Gen 10:8 as well as E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 20.

[2:14]  ³ tn Heb “Asshur” (so NEB, NIV).

[2:15]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew verb נוּחַ (nuakh, translated here as “placed”) is a different verb than the one used in 2:8.

[2:15]  ⁵ tn Traditionally translated “the Garden of Eden,” the context makes it clear that the garden (or orchard) was in Eden (making “Eden” a genitive of location).

[2:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “to work it and to keep it.”

[2:15]  sn Note that man’s task is to care for and maintain the trees of the orchard. Not until after the fall, when he is condemned to cultivate the soil, does this task change.