Genesis 2:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • Ezek 28:13 : 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.
  • Gen 3:24 : 24 So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.
  • Joel 2:3 : 3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.
  • Ezek 27:23 : 23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes:
  • Gen 4:16 : 16 And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
  • 2 Kgs 19:12 : 12 Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
  • Ezek 31:8-9 : 8 No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful. 9 I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.
  • Ezek 31:16 : 16 I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones.
  • Ezek 31:18 : 18 Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

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  • Gen 2:15-19
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    15 And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

    16 And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

    17 But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

    18 And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

    19 And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

  • Gen 2:9-11
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    9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

    10 And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

    11 The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.

  • Gen 3:21-24
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    21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.

    22 And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

    23 So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.

    24 So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.

  • Gen 2:4-7
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    4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

    5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

    6 But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.

    7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him 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 a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

    7 And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.

    8 And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.

    9 And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?

  • Eccl 2:5-6
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    5 I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

    6 I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    11 And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

    12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

  • Ps 80:8-9
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    8 You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

    9 You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

  • Gen 2:21-22
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    21 And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:

    22 And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.

  • Ezek 17:5
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    5 And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

  • Gen 1:26-29
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    26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

    27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

    28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

    29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

    2 Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.

  • Gen 3:1-3
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    1 Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?

    2 And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:

    3 But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.

  • Gen 3:11-12
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    11 And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?

    12 And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.

  • Ezek 31:9
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    9 I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.

  • Gen 1:1
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    1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8 He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

  • Gen 3:18
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    18 Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

  • Gen 4:16
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    16 And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.

  • Gen 1:8
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    8 And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.