Genesis 2:8 - Tree of Life Version

⁸ Then Adonai Elohim planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

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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 lifted up his eyes and saw that the whole area surrounding the Jordan was well watered in its entirety (before Adonai destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah)—like Adonai’s garden, like the land of Egypt—till you come to Zoar.

Genesis 3:23

Adonai Elohim sent him away from the Garden of Eden, to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Genesis 3:24

And He expelled the man; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He had cheruvim dwell along, with the whirling sword of flame, to guard the way to the Tree of Life.

Genesis 4:16

Then Cain left Adonai’s presence and dwelled in the Land of Wandering, east of Eden.

2 Kings 19:12

Have the gods of the nations delivered those my fathers destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Tel Assar?

Isaiah 51:3

For Adonai will comfort Zion. He will comfort all her waste places. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of Adonai. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and a sound of melody.

Ezekiel 27:23

Haran and Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad traded with you.

Ezekiel 28:13

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering —ruby, topaz and diamond, beryl, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and emerald—your settings and your sockets a workmanship of gold —in the day you were created they were prepared.

Ezekiel 31:16

I made the nations tremble at the sound of its fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the Pit. All the well-watered trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.

Ezekiel 31:18

‘Who is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lowest parts of the earth. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’ This is Pharaoh and all his multitude.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Joel 2:3

A fire devours before them and behind them flame blazes up. Like the Garden of Eden is the land before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Nothing at all ever escapes them.