 | William Sidney Gibson - 1840 - 328 pages
...the rivers known at the time of composing the history. For he says, " a river went forth out of Eden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison :— that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah," &c.* And the olive leaf... | |
 | 1841 - 612 pages
...he put the man whom he had formed ;' he proceeds to describe it thus: 'and a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted and became into four heads." So much of his description is in the past tense ; the remainder is in the present tense : ' The name... | |
 | Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 pages
...He writes thus, " And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads." This is all in the past tense ; and, had he intended merely to speak of Eden as the residence of our... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 744 pages
...discovered. " And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden. . . .And* river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads." This is all in the past tense; and, had he intended merely to speak of Eden as the residence of our... | |
 | George Paxton - 1842 - 586 pages
...channel which was common to all the four rivers ; for, says the historian, ' A river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted and became into four heads.' Within the limits of Eden, the river flowed in only one channel ; but from thence, or beyond Eden,... | |
 | Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette - 1843 - 578 pages
...in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden : and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison : that is it DOCUMENT " ELOHIM." bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the... | |
 | Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette - 1843 - 586 pages
...in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden : and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison : that is it §150.] BOOKS OF MOSES. DOCUMENT "ELOHIM." bring forth grass, the herb... | |
 | John McIntosh - 1843 - 332 pages
...opinion should not coincide with the account of Moses, who tells us, that a " river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads." — Moses cannot be misunderstood here, for he expressly says, that in Eden there was but one river,... | |
 | 1843 - 912 pages
...midst of the garden, and the k tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden : and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which comjpasselh ' the whole land of Havilah, where... | |
 | Leon Kass - 2003 - 722 pages
...the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads. . . .4 And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work it [or... | |
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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 
