Genesis 2:8
Good News Translation
Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed.

New Revised Standard Version
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD made a garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east, and he put the man there.

New American Bible
The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed there the man whom he had formed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.

a garden.

Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Ezekiel 28:13 Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Ezekiel 31:8,9 The cedars in the paradise of God were not higher than he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty. . . .

Joel 2:3 Before the face thereof a devouring fire, and behind it a burning flame: the land is like a garden of pleasure before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness, neither is there any one that can escape it.

eastward.

Genesis 3:24 And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 4:16 And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.

2 Kings 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered any of them, whom my fathers have destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thelassar?

Ezekiel 27:23 Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee.

Ezekiel 31:16,18 I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth. . . .

put the.

Genesis 2:15 And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.

Context
Man and Woman in the Garden
7And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul. 8And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.9And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.…
Cross References
Genesis 3:24
And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Isaiah 51:3
The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all the ruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place of pleasure, and her wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of praise.

Ezekiel 28:13
Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Ezekiel 31:8
The cedars in the paradise of God were not higher than he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty.

Ezekiel 31:9
For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches: and all the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise of God, envied him.

Genesis 2:7
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