Genesis 2:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Gen 3:22 : 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.
  • Rev 2:7 : 7 He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.
  • Rev 22:2 : 2 In the middle of its street. And on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, having twelve sorts of fruits, giving its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree give life to the nations.
  • 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 47:12 : 12 And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.
  • Gen 2:17 : 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.
  • Gen 3:3 : 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.
  • Prov 3:18 : 18 She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.
  • 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.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:
  • Isa 47:10 : 10 For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
  • Deut 6:25 : 25 And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.

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  • Gen 2:4-8
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    4These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

    5In 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.

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

    7And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

    8And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

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

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

    17But 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.

    18And 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

    19And 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 3:22-24
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    22And 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.

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

    24So 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 3:5-9
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    5For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.

    6And 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.

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

    8And 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.

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

  • Gen 2:10
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    10And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    11And 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.

    12And 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.

  • Gen 3:1-3
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    1Now 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?

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

    3But 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 1:29-30
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    29And 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:

    30And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

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

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    8No 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.

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

  • Dan 4:11-12
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    11And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:

    12Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.

  • Gen 3:11-13
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    11And 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?

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

    13And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

  • Rev 22:2
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    2In the middle of its street. And on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, having twelve sorts of fruits, giving its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree give life to the nations.

  • Gen 3:17-18
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    17And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

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

  • Ps 104:16
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    16The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

  • Dan 4:21
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    21Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places:

  • Job 14:8-9
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    8Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

    9Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

  • Ezek 17:5
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    5And 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.

  • Ps 80:9
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    9You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

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    8He 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.

  • Matt 7:17
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    17Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit.