Genesis 2:8

¶ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And the LORD {H3068} God {H430} planted {H5193} a garden {H1588} eastward {H6924} in Eden {H5731}; and there {H8033} he put {H7760} the man {H120} whom {H834} he had formed {H3335}.

Adonai, God, planted a garden toward the east, in ‘Eden, and there he put the person whom he had formed.

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Note: Commentary was generated by an advanced AI, utilizing a prompt that emphasized Biblical fidelity over bias. We've found these insights to be consistently reliable, yet we always encourage prayerful discernment through the Holy Spirit. The Scripture text and cross-references are from verified, non-AI sources.

  • Genesis 3:24

    So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

  • Ezekiel 28:13

    Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

  • Genesis 13:10

    ¶ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

  • Genesis 4:16

    ¶ And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

  • Joel 2:3

    A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

  • 2 Kings 19:12

    Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?

  • Ezekiel 31:8

    The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
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