SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:12
y el oro de aquella tierra es bueno; hay allí también bedelio y piedra cornerina.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:12
Verse 12. There is bdellium ( jldb bedolach) and the onyx stone, µhh ba eben hashshoham.] Bochart thinks that the bedolach or bdellium means the pearl-oyster; and shoham is generally understood to mean the onyx, or species of agate, a precious stone which has its name from onux a man's nail, to the colour of which it nearly approaches. It is impossible to say what is the precise meaning of the original words; and at this distance of time and place it is of little consequence.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-14 - The place fixed upon for Adam to dwell in, was not a palace, but garden. The better we take up with plain things, and the less we see things to gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to innocency. Nature is content with a little, and that which is mos natural; grace with less; but lust craves every thing, and is conten with nothing. No delights can be satisfying to the soul, but thos which God himself has provided and appointed for it. Eden signifie delight and pleasure. Wherever it was, it had all desirabl conveniences, without any inconvenience, though no other house of garden on earth ever was so. It was adorned with every tree pleasant to the sight, and enriched with every tree that yielded fruit grateful to the taste and good for food. God, as a tender Father, desired not onl Adam's profit, but his pleasure; for there is pleasure with innocency nay there is true pleasure only in innocency. When Providence puts u in a place of plenty and pleasure, we ought to serve God with gladnes of heart in the good things he gives us. Eden had two trees peculiar to itself. 1. There was the tree of life in the midst of the garden. O this man might eat and live. Christ is now to us the Tree of life, R 2:7; 22:2; and the Bread of life, Joh 6:48, 51. 2. There was the tre of the knowledge of good and evil, so called because there was positive revelation of the will of God about this tree, so that by it man might know moral good and evil. What is good? It is good not to ea of this tree. What is evil? It is evil to eat of this tree. In thes two trees God set before Adam good and evil, the blessing and the curse.
Original Hebrew
וזהב 2091 הארץ 776 ההוא 1931 טוב 2896 שׁם 8033 הבדלח 916 ואבן 68 השׁהם׃ 7718
