Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
KJV
Plantaverat autem Dominus Deus paradisum voluptatis a principio, in quo posuit hominem quem formaverat.
Vulgate
Καὶ ἐφύτευσεν Κύριος ὁ θεὸς παράδεισον ἐν Ἔδεμ κατὰ ἀνατολάς, καὶ ἔθετο ἐκεῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὃν ἔπλασεν.
LXX
And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
ASV
וַ/יִּטַּ֞ע יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים גַּן בְ/עֵ֖דֶן מִ/קֶּ֑דֶם וַ/יָּ֣שֶׂם שָׁ֔ם אֶת הָֽ/אָדָ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָצָֽר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
גַן
gn
noun · 42×
ה
h
noun · 87×
ה
h
adverb · 827×
וֹ
v
verb · 63×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
נָטְע֣וּ
nt'v
verb · 59×
עֵ֔דֶן
'dn
proper_noun · 16×
Typology
Historic Christian voices
11 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§378The sign of man's familiarity with God is that God places him in the garden.255 There he lives "to till it and keep it". Work is not yet a burden,256 but rather the collaboration of man and woman with God in perfecting the visible creation.
The prolonged life of the ancients, the translation of Elijah and of Enoch in their own bodies, as well as the preservation of Jonah, of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the midst of extreme peril, are clear demonstrations that God can raise up our bodies to life eternal. 1. [In order to learn] that bodies did continue in existence for a lengthened period, as long as it was …
Theology of the Body · 2 passages
Analysis of the Biblical Account of Creation Last Wednesday we began this series of reflections on the reply Christ gave to his questioners on the subject of the unity and indissolubility of marriage. As we recall, the Pharisees who questioned him appealed to the Mosaic Law. However, Christ went back to the "beginning," quoting the words of Genesis. The "beginning" in this ca…
The Nuptial Meaning of the Body Rereading and analyzing the second narrative of creation, the Yahwist text, we must ask ourselves if the first "man" ('adam), in his original solitude, really "lived" the world as a gift, with an attitude in conformity with the actual condition of one who has received a gift, as is seen from the narrative in the first chapter. The second narrati…
Chapter 1. Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows. I. The man who fears God seeks diligently in Holy Scripture for a knowledge of His will. And when he has become meek through piety, so as to have no love of strife; when furnished also with a knowledge of languages, so as not to be stopped by unknown words and forms of speech, and with the knowledge of …
It is not without reason or by chance that we worship towards the East. But seeing that we are composed of a visible and an invisible nature, that is to say, of a nature partly of spirit and partly of sense, we render also a twofold worship to the Creator; just as we sing both with our spirit and our bodily lips, and are baptized with both water and Spirit, and are united with …
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 19:12 — Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
- Ezek 28:13 — Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
- Ezek 28:13 — Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
- Ezek 31:8 — The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in hi
- Ezek 31:8 — The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in hi
- Ezek 31:16 — I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water,
- Gen 2:15 — And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- Gen 3:24 — So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
- Gen 4:16 — And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
- Gen 13:10 — And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egy
- Gen 13:10 — And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egy
- Isa 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, t
- Joel 2:3 — A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
- Joel 2:3 — A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.