Genesis 2:8

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Ezek 28:13 : 13 Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.
  • Gen 3:24 : 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 For Jehovah hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
  • Joel 2:3 : 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and none hath escaped them.
  • Ezek 27:23 : 23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were thy traffickers.
  • Gen 4:16 : 16 And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
  • 2 Kgs 19:12 : 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
  • Ezek 31:8-9 : 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty. 9 I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
  • Ezek 31:16 : 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
  • Ezek 31:18 : 18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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  • Gen 2:15-19
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    88%

    15 And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

    16 And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

    17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

    18 And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

    19 And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

  • Gen 2:9-11
    3 verses
    86%

    9 And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

    10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.

    11 The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

  • Gen 3:21-24
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    21 And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them.

    22 And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever--

    23 therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

    24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

  • Gen 2:4-7
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    4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

    5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;

    6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

    7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  • Gen 3:6-9
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    6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

    7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

    8 And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden.

    9 And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?

  • Eccl 2:5-6
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    5 I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

    6 I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    73%

    11 And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so.

    12 And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

  • Ps 80:8-9
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    72%

    8 Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

    9 Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.

  • Gen 2:21-22
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    21 And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof:

    22 and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

  • 5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow-tree.

  • Gen 1:26-29
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    26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

    27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

    28 And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

    29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    70%

    1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

    2 male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

  • Gen 3:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

    2 And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

    3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

  • Gen 3:11-12
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    70%

    11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

    12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

  • 9 I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

  • 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

  • 8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

  • 18 thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

  • 16 And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

  • 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.