Genesis 2:11
Douay-Rheims
The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.
Sforno
שם אחד פישון, [The Torah] informed us of the praise of the river that irrigates the garden that is not known to us by informing us of the rivers that branch off from it that are known by their praised size and the goodness of their water and the goodness of their fruit.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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1550 · Genesis 2:11
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