Genesis 2:12

Overview - Genesis 2
The first Sabbath.
Further particulars concerning the manner of creation.
The planting of the garden of Eden, and its situation;
15 man is placed in it; and the tree of knowledge only forbidden.
18 The animals are named by Adam.
21 The making of woman, and the institution of marriage.
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Genesis 2:12  (King James Version)
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
 


Bdellium is a transparent aromatic gum. The onyx is a precious stone, so called from a Greek word signifying a man's nail, to the colour of which it nearly approaches.
Numbers 11:7

onyx
Exodus 28:20 ; 39:13 Job 28:16 ; Ezekiel 28:13