Genesis 2:8 “And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He place…”

Genesis 2:8

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

World English Bible

The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

American Standard Version

And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.

Darby Translation

And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed.

Young's Literal Translation

And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed;

Bible in Basic English

And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

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Cross references

“a garden”

Ezekiel 28:13 Genesis 13:10 Joel 2:3 Ezekiel 31:8 Ezekiel 31:9

Ezekiel 28:13 · BSB

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepar…

Genesis 13:10 · BSB

And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Joel 2:3 · BSB

Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland— surely nothing will escape them.

Ezekiel 31:8 · BSB

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.

Ezekiel 31:9 · BSB

I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’

“eastward”

Genesis 3:24 Genesis 4:16 2 Kings 19:12 Ezekiel 31:16 Ezekiel 27:23 Ezekiel 31:18

Genesis 3:24 · BSB

So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 4:16 · BSB

So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

2 Kings 19:12 · BSB

Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

Ezekiel 31:16 · BSB

I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consol…

Ezekiel 27:23 · BSB

Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.

Ezekiel 31:18 · BSB

Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sw…

Also

Isaiah 51:3

Isaiah 51:3 · BSB

For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and mel…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

9Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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