Genesis 2:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the LORD 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 You have been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar.
  • Gen 3:24 : 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 For the LORD will comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
  • Joel 2:3 : 3 A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them.
  • Ezek 27:23 : 23 Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants.
  • Gen 4:16 : 16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, 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 whom my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who 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 chestnut trees were not like its branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty. 9 I made it beautiful 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 its fall, when I cast it down to hell with those who descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
  • Ezek 31:18 : 18 Who are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 2:15-19
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    88%

    15And the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

    16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

    17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat: for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.

    18And the LORD God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.

    19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

  • Gen 2:9-11
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    86%

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

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

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

  • Gen 3:21-24
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    21Also, for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

    22Then the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:

    23Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

    24So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

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

    5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

    6But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

    7And the LORD God formed man from 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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    6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of the fruit and ate, and gave also to her husband with her; and he ate.

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

    8And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

    9Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?

  • Eccl 2:5-6
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    5I made gardens and orchards for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

    6I made pools of water for myself, to water the forest that grows trees.

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so.

    12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

  • Ps 80:8-9
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    8You have brought a vine out of Egypt; you have cast out the nations, and planted it.

    9You prepared room before it, and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

  • Gen 2:21-22
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    21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.

    22And with the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, He made a woman and brought her to the man.

  • Ezek 17:5
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    5He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in a fertile field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

  • Gen 1:26-29
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    26And 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 air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

    27So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

    28And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.

    29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing 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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    1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;

    2Male and female He created them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

  • Gen 3:1-3
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    1Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yes, has God said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

    2And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

    3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.

  • Gen 3:11-12
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    11And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?

    12And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

  • Ezek 31:9
    69%

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

  • Gen 1:1
    69%

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

  • Ezek 17:8
    68%

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

  • Gen 3:18
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    18Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the herb of the field;

  • Gen 4:16
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    16And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

  • Gen 1:8
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    8And God called the sky Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.