Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
New American Standard Bible
The Lord God planted a
King James Version
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Holman Bible
The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,
International Standard Version
The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, where he placed the man whom he had formed.
American Standard Version
And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Amplified
And the Lord God
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.
Darby Translation
And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed.
Julia Smith Translation
And Jehovah God will plant a garden in Eden from the east; and he will put there the man which he will form.
King James 2000
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Modern King James verseion
And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward in Eden. And there He put the man whom He had formed.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The LORD God also planted a garden in Eden from the beginning, and there he set man whom he had formed.
NET Bible
The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.
New Heart English Bible
The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
The Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, on the east, - and put there the man whom he had formed.
Webster
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
World English Bible
Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed;
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 2:8
Images Genesis 2:8
Prayers for Genesis 2:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Generations Of Heaven And Earth
7 And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. 8 And LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, also the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Cross References
Ezekiel 28:13
Thou were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold. The workmanship of t
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou go to Zoar.
Genesis 3:24
So he drove out the man. And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way of the tree of life.
Isaiah 51:3
For LORD has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of LORD. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Joel 2:3
A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Yea, and none has escaped them.
Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
2 Kings 19:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden that were in Telassar?
Ezekiel 27:23
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were thy merchants.
Ezekiel 31:8-9
The cedars in the garden of God could not dim it. The fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches, nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether p
Ezekiel 31:18
To whom are thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet thou shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth. Thou shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who