Gen 2:11 | TNotes | STEP | 2:11 The Pishon and the Gihon (2:13 ) cannot be identified with certainty. If the land of Havilah was in southeast Arabia or on the African coast, as some biblical data suggest (see 10:7 ; 25:18 ; 1 Sam 15:7 ), then the Pishon was possibly the Nile River. Josephus thought that Havilah and the Pishon were in India ( Antiquities 1.1.3). Two other proposals suggest: (1) rivers in the mountains of eastern Turkey where the Tigris and Euphrates (Gen 2:14 ) also flow, and (2) the marshy delta near the Persian Gulf. Current geographical conditions make any theory impossible to prove conclusively.

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2:11 ^a The Pishon and the Gihon (2:13 ^b) cannot be identified with certainty. If the land of Havilah was in southeast Arabia or on the African coast, as some biblical data suggest (see 10:7 ^c; 25:18 ^d; 1 Sam 15:7 ^e), then the Pishon was possibly the Nile River. Josephus thought that Havilah and the Pishon were in India (Antiquities 1.1.3). Two other proposals suggest: (1) rivers in the mountains of eastern Turkey where the Tigris and Euphrates (Gen 2:14 ^f) also flow, and (2) the marshy delta near the Persian Gulf. Current geographical conditions make any theory impossible to prove conclusively.