Genesis 2:8 - Plain English Version

⁸ Then God made a garden in a place called Eden. It was in the east part of the land. And God put the man in that garden.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden [delight]; and there He put the man whom He had formed (framed, constituted).

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁸ The LORD God planted a garden in Eden in the east and put there the human he had formed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Now the Lord God had planted a Paradise of enjoyment from the beginning. In it, he placed the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:8 Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked to the east, towards a town called Zoar, in the flat country around the Jordan River. He saw that the flat country had plenty of grass and water. It looked just like God’s garden, and like the country in Egypt. (That was before God burned up the towns in the flat country called Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 3:23

So God hunted them out of the garden. To get food, they had to dig the ground and grow plants. You know, God made that man out of the ground, and after they left the garden, that man had to dig that same ground.

Genesis 3:24

After God hunted them out of the garden, he made sure that they couldn’t get back. He put some of his angel workers as guards just outside the east side of the garden in Eden. And he put a long knife there with them. That knife kept on moving around all the time, and it looked like it was on fire. Those angel workers and that long knife, they kept everyone away from that tree that makes people stay alive.

Genesis 4:16

After that, Cain went away from God and went to live in a place called Nod. That country was on the east side of Eden.