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GLOSSARY
Euphrates
Pronunciation: yoo-FRAY-tees
Occurrences: 8
First Reference: Beginnings 1:6
Now Adam dwelt for a season in the land between the great rivers, even the Tigris and Euphrates, and he walked among the children of men eastward in Eden. And when he saw that the land was good, he planted a garden there.
See: Nile River, Tigris
Summary: Scripture often mentions the “land between the two great rivers”, referring to the region of Mesopotamia and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Located west of the Tigris river, the Euphrates is the longest river of western Asia, flowing south from eastern Turkey through Syria and Iraq, to join the Tigris and empty into the Persian Gulf. Mesopotamia became one of the earth’s cradles of civilization. According to scripture, Cain established the first city of Sumer along the banks of the Euphrates river (B:4:25). Mesopotamia eventually hosted the emergence of the first Sumerian Empire.
• Various tribes of the Enoshahim established camps along the Nile, as well as the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (6:5:40-41, 44).
• Adam established a garden (Eden) east of the concourse of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (B:1:6; E:13:20).
• Wine created by the vintners of Zion (established near Sumer by the Euphrates river) was in such great demand that merchants from across the land, beyond the Tigris, would come to purchase it (B:10:30).
• The prophet Enoch and his son Methuselah extended missionary efforts throughout the ‘land of the two great rivers’ seeking out the righteous (B:13:40; B:14:59).
• Shem, the oldest son of Noah, led an expedition from Mount Ararat to the ‘land of the two great rivers’ (B:23:5-11).
• Abraham and Sarah followed the Euphrates river north on their journey from the city of Babel to the land of Haran (B:26:69).
Notes/References:
For already had many clans fled eastward, to leave behind the lands of the Nile; hoping that in their wandering they might find another land where the Enoshahim did not dwell; causing that there should enter into Mesopotamia the many clans of the screelings, to camp themselves beside the Tigris and Euphrates.
But soon again there fell upon them another tribe of the Enoshahim, which very tribe the sons and daughters of Shaemdiel had themselves established along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates; being in their laws and customs similar to the Enoshahim which dwelt along the Nile.
6th Endowment 5:40-41
