Genesis 2:8

Modern English Version

The Lord God planted a garden in the east, in Eden, and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot lifted up his eyes, and looked at all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Genesis 3:23

therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 3:24

He drove the man out, and at the east of the garden of Eden He placed the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned in every direction, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 4:16

Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

2 Kings 19:12

Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Harran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Tel-assar?

Isaiah 51:3

For the Lord shall comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Ezekiel 27:23

Harran, and Kanneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Ashur, and Kilmad, were your merchants.

Ezekiel 28:13

You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your 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 your settings and sockets was in you; on the day that you were created, they were prepared.

Ezekiel 31:16

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

Ezekiel 31:18

To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth. You shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who were slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord God.

Joel 2:3

Before them fire devours, and behind them a flame blazes; the land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wasteland, and nothing escapes them.