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Genesis 2:8

And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.

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Genesis 2:8 in other translations

KJV King James Version

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

BSB Berean Standard Bible

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

WEB World English Bible

The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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In context

5 And euery plant of the fielde, before it was in the earth, and euery herbe of the field, before it grewe: for the Lord God had not caused it to raine vpon the earth, neither was there a man to till the ground,

6 But a myst went vp from the earth, and watered all the earth.

7 The Lord God also made the man of the dust of the grounde, and breathed in his face breath of life, and the man was a liuing soule.

8 And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.

9 (For out of the ground made the Lord God to grow euery tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meate: the tree of life also in the mids of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and of euill.

10 And out of Eden went a riuer to water the garden, and from thence it was deuided, and became into foure heads.

11 The name of one is Pishon: the same compasseth the whole land of Hauilah, where is golde.

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