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11The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2:11

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 8-15)

Man consisting of body and soul, a body made out of the earth and a rational immortal soul the breath of heaven, we have, in these verses, the provision that was made for the happiness of both; he that made him took care to make him happy, if he could but have kept himself so and known when he was well off. That part of man by which he is allied to the world of sense was made happy; for he was put...

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