Genesis 2:9

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Gen 3:22 : 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..."
  • Rev 2:7 : 7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
  • Rev 22:2 : 2 in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
  • 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 47:12 : 12 By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.
  • Gen 2:17 : 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."
  • Gen 3:3 : 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.'"
  • Prov 3:18 : 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
  • 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.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
  • Isa 47:10 : 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
  • Deut 6:25 : 25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 2:4-8
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    86%

    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.

    8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

  • Gen 2:15-19
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    82%

    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 3:22-24
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    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 3:5-9
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    5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

    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?"

  • Gen 2:10
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    10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.

  • Gen 1:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Gen 3:1-3
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    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 1:29-30
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    76%

    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.

    30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.

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

  • Ezek 31:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Dan 4:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11 The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

    12 The leaves of it were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

  • Gen 3:11-13
    3 verses
    72%

    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."

    13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

  • Rev 22:2
    72%

    2 in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

  • Gen 3:17-18
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    71%

    17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

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

  • Ps 104:16
    71%

    16 Yahweh's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

  • Dan 4:21
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    21 whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:

  • Job 14:8-9
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    71%

    8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

    9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

  • Ezek 17:5
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    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.

  • Ps 80:9
    70%

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

  • Ezek 17:8
    70%

    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.

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