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Genesis 2:10

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Genesis 2:10 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

10 A river rises in Eden[a] to water the garden; beyond there it divides and becomes four branches.

Footnotes:

  1. 2:10–14 A river rises in Eden: the stream of water mentioned in v. 6, the source of all water upon earth, comes to the surface in the garden of God and from there flows out over the entire earth. In comparable religious literature, the dwelling of god is the source of fertilizing waters. The four rivers represent universality, as in the phrase “the four quarters of the earth.” In Ez 47:1–12; Zec 14:8; Rev 22:1–2, the waters that irrigate the earth arise in the temple or city of God. The place names in vv. 11–14 are mainly from southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), where Mesopotamian literature placed the original garden of God. The Tigris and the Euphrates, the two great rivers in that part of the world, both emptied into the Persian Gulf. Gihon is the modest stream issuing from Jerusalem (2 Sm 5:8; 1 Kgs 1:9–10; 2 Chr 32:4), but is here regarded as one of the four great world rivers and linked to Mesopotamia, for Cush here seems to be the territory of the Kassites (a people of Mesopotamia) as in Gn 10:8. The word Pishon is otherwise unknown but is probably formed in imitation of Gihon. Havilah seems, according to Gn 10:7 and 1 Chr 1:9, to be in Cush in southern Mesopotamia though other locations have been suggested.
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Psalm 46:4

Psalm 45Psalm 47

Psalm 46:4 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

4 Though its waters rage and foam
    and mountains totter at its surging.
Selah

New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

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Revelation 22:1

Revelation 21

Revelation 22:1 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

Chapter 22

1 Then the angel showed me the river of life-giving water,[a] sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Footnotes:

  1. 22:1, 17 Life-giving water: see note on Rev 7:17.
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

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