Genesis 3:24

New English Translation

When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

Cross References

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

Genesis 4:1

Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, “I have created a man just as the Lord did!”

Genesis 4:14

Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

Psalm 104:4

He makes the winds his messengers, and the flaming fire his attendant.

Psalm 80:1

O shepherd of Israel, pay attention, you who lead Joseph like a flock of sheep! You who sit enthroned above the winged angels, reveal your splendor!

Psalm 99:1

The Lord reigns! The nations tremble. He sits enthroned above the winged angels; the earth shakes.

Exodus 25:2

“Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.

Ezekiel 10:1

As I watched, I saw on the platform above the top of the cherubim something like a sapphire, resembling the shape of a throne, appearing above them.

Ezekiel 31:11

I gave it over to the leader of the nations. He has judged it thoroughly, as its sinfulness deserves. I have thrown it out.

Numbers 22:23

And the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, so the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. But Balaam beat the donkey, to make her turn back to the road.

John 14:6

Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Hebrews 1:7

And he says of the angels, “He makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,”

Joshua 5:13

When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. Joshua approached him and asked him, “Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?”

1 Samuel 4:4

So the army sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.