Phison, which denotes a multitude, running into India, makes its
exit into the sea, and is by the Greeks called Ganges. Euphrates
also, as well as Tigris, goes down into the Red Sea.(4) Now the
name Euphrates, or Phrath, denotes either a dispersion, or a
flower: by Tiris, or Diglath, is signified what is swift, with
narrowness; and Geon runs through Egypt, and denotes what arises
from the east, which the Greeks call Nile.

4. God therefore commanded that Adam and his wife should eat of
all the rest of the plants, but to abstain from the tree of
knowledge; and foretold to them, that if they touched it, it
would prove their destruction. But while all the living creatures
had one language, (5) at that time the serpent, which then lived
together with Adam and his wife, shewed an envious disposition,
at his supposal of their living happily, and in obedience to the
commands of God; and imagining, that when they disobeyed them,
they would fall into calamities, he persuaded the woman, out of a
malicious intention, to taste of the tree of knowledge, telling
them, that in that tree was the knowledge of good and evil; which
knowledge, when they should obtain, they would lead a happy life;
nay, a life not inferior to that of a god: by which means he
overcame the woman, and persuaded her to despise the command of
God. Now when she had tasted of that tree, and was pleased with
its fruit, she persuaded Adam to make use of it also. Upon this
they perceived that they were become naked to one another; and
being ashamed thus to appear abroad, they invented somewhat to
cover them; for the tree sharpened their understanding; and they
covered themselves with fig-leaves; and tying these before them,
out of modesty, they thought they were happier than they were
before, as they had discovered what they were in want of. But