Genesis 2:15
“And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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“And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.”
“Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”
“And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.”
“And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.”
“And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”