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my footnote for the word "streams" says "or mist." Some translations use something more like Springs from the ground. This passage is in the middle of talking about how God made man, so it's just background--kind of like while the earth was formless, before the whole part about water teeming with creatures and the land producing livestock, there was no rain.
Which, why would there be, if there were no plants and animals yet to need it? But I'd never noticed that part. very interesting.
After that it talks about rivers watering the garden of Eden. I just looked really quick, but I don't think there's any mention of "No rain, ever, before that one time when the world flooded..." so that seems kind of arbitrary. Nowhere in the account of the flood does it say the rains fell "for the first time" so...huh. But like I said, I'm no scholar on the subject. I'd never heard that particular belief before, though.