Four Rivers of Eden. Beginning of World Geography.

Sam Kneller - Biblical Hebrew go-to-guy
The Explanation
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11 min readMar 18, 2020

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Four Rivers of Eden. The first geographic features establish the basis of the entire Bible narrative from Genesis to Revelation.

Four Rivers of Eden. The beginning of world geography. Yes, we can situate this area on a contemporary world map.
Four Rivers of Eden. The beginning of world geography. Yes, we can situate this area on a contemporary world map.

The four rivers of Eden sourced from the Garden of Eden reach the Western and Eastern limits of the key nations referred to in the Bible. God abundantly watered all the nations. What happened to these majestic waterways?

Genesis 2:10–14

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 compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it…

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Sam Kneller - Biblical Hebrew go-to-guy
The Explanation

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