EVER-FLOWING, PERENNIAL, and so ENDURING — an adjective of permanence rather than of terrain. It matters because of a two-word phrase. ⭐ Nachal eitan, a wadi that is eitan, stands in two verses of the Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy 21:4, the valley the elders take the heifer down to, and Amos 5:24 (not yet on these pages), let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a nachal eitan. ⚠ In Amos nothing but permanence makes the image work — the point is a stream that does not fail in the dry season — and that is the sense this project follows in Deuteronomy too. The older shelf reads terrain instead, following the Latin: ‘a rough valley’ in the KJV, ‘a stony valley’ in the Geneva, «un valle áspero» in the RV 1909. The ASV’s ‘a valley with running water’ is the tighter reading, and Amos is the reason. → first discussed at Deut 21:4