The Garden Of Eden

Genesis 2:8-17

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there He placed the man whom He had formed. And the LORD God caused to sprout from the ground every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food, and the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four heads. The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that surrounds all the land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; there is the bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that surrounds all the land of Cush. And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one that goes east of Assyria. And the fourth river, it is the Euphrates. And the LORD God took the man and set him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden you may surely eat. But of the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat from it, for on the day you eat from it you shall surely die.

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Original Sources

  • Genesis 2:8-17

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