Genesis 2:8

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh 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 were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
  • Gen 3:24 : 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
  • Joel 2:3 : 3 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
  • Ezek 27:23 : 23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers.
  • Gen 4:16 : 16 Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, 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 it in its 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 his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
  • Ezek 31:18 : 18 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet you will 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 Yahweh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 2:15-19
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    88%

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

    16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

    17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

    18 Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

    19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

  • Gen 2:9-11
    3 verses
    86%

    9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow 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 the knowledge of good and evil.

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

    11 The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

  • Gen 3:21-24
    4 verses
    80%

    21 Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

    22 Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

    23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

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

  • Gen 2:4-7
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    77%

    4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

    5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

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

    7 Yahweh 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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    75%

    6 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 its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

    7 The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

    8 They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

    9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

  • Eccl 2:5-6
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    75%

    5 I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

    6 I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

  • Gen 1:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

    12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

  • Ps 80:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

    9 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

  • Gen 2:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

    22 He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

  • Ezek 17:5
    71%

    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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    71%

    26 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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

    27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

    28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

    29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

  • Gen 5:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

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

    2 He created them male and female, 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 animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"

    2 The woman said to 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 middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"

  • Gen 3:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

    12 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%

    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.

  • Gen 1:1
    69%

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

  • Ezek 17:8
    68%

    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.

  • Gen 3:18
    68%

    18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

  • Gen 4:16
    68%

    16 Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

  • Gen 1:8
    68%

    8 God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.