Genesis 2:6

6 but streams^[a] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Read Chapter Compare

PREVIOUS Genesis 2:5 NEXT Genesis 2:7

Genesis 2:6 in Other Translations

KJV

6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

ESV

6 and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground--

NLT

6 Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.

MSG

6 (the whole Earth was watered by underground springs) -

CSB

6 But water would come out of the ground and water the entire surface of the land.

Genesis 2:6 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 2:6

But there went up a mist from the earth
After the waters had been drained off from it, and it was warmed by the body of light and heat created on the first day, which caused a vapour, which went up as a mist, and descended:

and watered the whole face of the ground;
or earth, and so supplied the place of rain, until that was given: though rather the words may be rendered disjunctively, "or there went up" ^F7; that is, before a mist went up, when as yet there was none; not so much as a mist to water the earth, and plants and herbs were made to grow; and so Saadiah reads them negatively, "nor did a mist go up"; there were no vapours exhaled to form clouds, and produce rain, and yet the whole earth on the third day was covered with plants and herbs; and this is approved of by Kimchi and Ben Melech.

FOOTNOTES:

F7 (hley daw) "aut vapor ascendens", Junius & Tremellius.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 2:6 In-Context

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,

6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

7 Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.