Genesis 2:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Ezek 28:13 : 13 Thou hast ben in Eden the garden of God: euery precious stone was in thy garment, the rubie, the topaze and the diamonde, the chrysolite, the onix, and the iasper, the saphir, emeraude, and the carbuncle and golde: the woorkemanship of thy timbrels, & of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 So when Lot lifted vp his eyes, he saw that all the plaine of Iorden was watered euery where: (for before the Lorde destroyed Sodom and Gomorah, it was as the garden of the Lorde, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest vnto Zoar)
  • Gen 3:24 : 24 Thus he cast out man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sworde shaken, to keepe the way of the tree of life.
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 Surely the Lord shall comfort Zion: he shal comfort all her desolations, and he shall make her desert like Eden, and her wildernes like the garden of the Lord: ioy and gladnesse shalbe founde therein: praise, and the voyce of singing.
  • Joel 2:3 : 3 A fire deuoureth before him, and behinde him a flame burneth vp: the land is as the garden of Eden before him, & behinde him a desolate wildernesse, so that nothing shal escape him.
  • Ezek 27:23 : 23 They of Haram and Canneh and Eden, the marchants of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad were thy marchants.
  • Gen 4:16 : 16 Then Kain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod towarde the Eastside of Eden.
  • 2 Kgs 19:12 : 12 Haue the gods of the heathen deliuered them which my fathers haue destroyed? as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were in Thelasar?
  • Ezek 31:8-9 : 8 The cedars in the garden of God coulde not hide him: no firre tree was like his branches, and the chessenut trees were not like his boughes: all the trees in the garden of God were not like vnto him in his beautie. 9 I made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him.
  • Ezek 31:16 : 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him downe to hell with them that descend into the pit, & all the excellent trees of Eden, and the best of Lebanon: euen all that are nourished with waters, shall be comforted in the nether partes of the earth.
  • Ezek 31:18 : 18 To whom art thou thus like in glorie and in greatnesse among the trees of Eden? yet thou shalt be cast downe with the trees of Eden vnto the nether partes of the earth: thou shalt sleepe in the middes of the vncircumcised, with them that be slaine by the sworde: this is Pharaoh and all his multitude, sayth the Lord God.

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  • Gen 2:15-19
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    15 Then the Lord God tooke the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, that he might dresse it and keepe it.

    16 And the Lorde God commaunded the man, saying, Thou shalt eate freely of euery tree of the garden,

    17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and euill, thou shalt not eate of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death.

    18 Also the Lorde God saide, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I wil make him an helpe meete for him.

    19 So the Lorde God formed of the earth euery beast of the fielde, and euery foule of the heauen, and brought them vnto the man to see howe he would call them: for howsoeuer the man named the liuing creature, so was the name thereof.

  • Gen 2:9-11
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    9 (For out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meate: the tree of life also in the middes of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and of euill.

    10 And out of Eden went a riuer to water the garden, and from thence it was deuided, and became into foure heads.

    11 The name of one is Pishon: the same compasseth the whole land of Hauilah, where is golde.

  • Gen 3:21-24
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    21 Vnto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coates of skinnes, and clothed them.

    22 And the Lord God said, Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, to knowe good and euill; nowe lest he put foorth his hand, and take also of ye tree of life & eate & liue for euer,

    23 Therefore the Lord God sent him foorth from the garden of Eden, to till ye earth, whence he was taken.

    24 Thus he cast out man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sworde shaken, to keepe the way of the tree of life.

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

    5 And euery plant of the fielde, before it was in the earth, and euery herbe of the field, before it grewe: for the Lorde God had not caused it to raine vpon the earth, neither was there a man to till the ground,

    6 But a myst went vp from the earth, and watered all the earth.

    7 The Lord God also made the man of the dust of the grounde, and breathed in his face breath of life, and the man was a liuing soule.

  • Gen 3:6-9
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    6 So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, & gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate.

    7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knewe that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaues together, and made them selues breeches.

    8 Afterward they heard the voyce of the Lord God walking in the garden in the coole of the day, and the man & his wife hid themselues from the presence of the Lorde God among the trees of the garden.

    9 But the Lord God called to the man, and said vnto him, Where art thou?

  • Eccl 2:5-6
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    5 I haue made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruite.

    6 I haue made me cisternes of water, to water therewith the woods that growe with trees.

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    11 Then God said, Let the earth bud foorth the bud of the herbe, that seedeth seede, the fruitfull tree, which beareth fruite according to his kinde, which hath his seede in it selfe vpon the earth; it was so.

    12 And the earth brought foorth the bud of the herbe, that seedeth seede according to his kind, also the tree that beareth fruite, which hath his seede in it selfe according to his kinde: and God sawe that it was good.

  • Ps 80:8-9
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    8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

    9 Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land.

  • Gen 2:21-22
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    21 Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man, and he slept: and he tooke one of his ribbes, & closed vp the flesh in steade thereof.

    22 And the ribbe which the Lorde God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man.

  • Ezek 17:5
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    5 Hee tooke also of the seede of the lande, and planted it in a fruitfull ground: hee placed it by great waters, and set it as a willowe tree.

  • Gen 1:26-29
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    26 Furthermore God said, Let vs make man in our image according to our likenes, and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, and ouer the beastes, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery thing that creepeth and moueth on the earth.

    27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.

    28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, Bring forth fruite and multiplie, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, & ouer euery beast that moueth vpon the earth.

    29 And God said, Beholde, I haue giuen vnto you euery herbe bearing seede, which is vpon al the earth, and euery tree, wherein is the fruite of a tree bearing seede: that shall be to you for meate.

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    1 This is the booke of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the likenes of God made he him,

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

  • Gen 3:1-3
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    1 Nowe the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the fielde, which the Lord God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God in deede said, Ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?

    2 And the woman said vnto the serpent, We eate of the fruite of the trees of the garden,

    3 But of the fruite of the tree which is in the middes of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eate of it, neither shall ye touche it, lest ye die.

  • Gen 3:11-12
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    11 And he saide, Who tolde thee, that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eate?

    12 Then the man saide, The woman which thou gauest to be with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I did eate.

  • Ezek 31:9
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    9 I made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him.

  • Gen 1:1
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    1 In the beginning God created the heauen and the earth.

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8 It was planted in a good soyle by great waters, that it should bring forth branches, and beare fruite, and be an excellent vine.

  • Gen 3:18
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    18 Thornes also, and thistles shall it bring foorth to thee, and thou shalt eate the herbe of the fielde.

  • Gen 4:16
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    16 Then Kain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod towarde the Eastside of Eden.

  • Gen 1:8
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    8 And God called the firmament Heauen. So the Euening and the morning were the seconde day.