Genesis 2:11

11. Pison… Havilah After the views above given as to the site of paradise and the land of Eden, it would be idle to enumerate the diverse speculations and conjectures touching the rivers and lands designated in this and the following verses . The name Pison occurs nowhere else; but Havilah appears in Genesis 10:7, as the name of a son of Ham, and in Gen 2:29 as that of a son of Shem . Nothing would have been more natural than for the sons of Noah to transfer antediluvian names to their children . In Genesis 25:18, and 1 Samuel 15:7, the name appears as that of a country south-east of Palestine probably because settled by the descendants of a patriarch of this name .

Where there is gold The land of Eden was rich in precious metals and other costly substances .