Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

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, and there He placed the man He had formed.

International Standard Version

The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, where he placed the man whom he had formed.

A Conservative Version

And LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put 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 planted a garden (oasis) in the east, in Eden (delight, land of happiness); and He put the man whom He had formed (created) there.

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.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the Lord

Usage: 0

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

נטע 
Nata` 
Usage: 58

a garden
גּן 
Gan 
Usage: 43

קדמה קדם 
Qedem 
Usage: 87

in Eden
עדן 
`Eden 
Usage: 16

and there
שׁם 
Sham 
Usage: 823

he put
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

the man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

Devotionals

Devotionals about Genesis 2:8

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Images Genesis 2:8

Prayers for Genesis 2:8

Context Readings

The Generations Of Heaven And Earth

7 Then the LORD God shope man, even of the mold of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul. 8 The LORD God also planted a garden in Eden from the beginning, and there he set man whom he had formed. 9 And the LORD God made to spring out of the earth, all manner trees beautiful to the sight and pleasant to eat; and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and also the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Cross References

Ezekiel 28:13

Thou hast been in the pleasure garden of God; thou art decked with all manner of precious stones: with Ruby, Topaz, Crystal, Jacinth, Onyx, Jasper, Sapphire, Smaragdus, Carbuncle, and gold. Thy beauty and the holes that be in thee were set forth in the day of thy creation.

Genesis 13:10

Then Lot lift up his eyes, and beheld all the country about Jordan: that it was a plenteous country of water. For, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was round about Zoar, even as the pleasant garden of the LORD, and as the land of Egypt.

Genesis 3:24

And he cast Adam out, and set at the entering of the garden Eden, Cherubim with a naked sword moving in and out, to keep the way to the tree of life.

Isaiah 51:3

For the LORD hath compassion on Zion and hath compassion on all that is decayed therein, and will make her wilderness as paradise, and her desert as the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, with thanksgiving and the voice of praise.

Joel 2:3

Before him shall be a consuming fire, and behind him a burning flame. The land shall be as a garden of pleasure before him, but behind him shall it be a very waste wilderness, and there is no man, that shall escape him.

Genesis 4:16

And Cain went out from the face of the LORD, and dwelt in the land Nod, on the east side of Eden.

2 Kings 19:12

Hath the gods of the heathen delivered them which mine ancestors have destroyed: as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?

Ezekiel 27:23

Haran, Cannah, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad, were all doers with thee

Ezekiel 31:8-9

no Cedar tree might hide him. In the pleasant garden of God, there was no fir tree like his branches, the plain trees were not like the boughs of him. All the trees in the garden of God might not be compared unto him in his beauty:

Ezekiel 31:16

I will make the Heathen shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell, with them that descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, with all the chosen and best trees of Lebanon, yea, and all they that are planted upon the waters, shall mourn with him also in the lower habitations:

Ezekiel 31:18

To whom shalt thou be likened, that art so glorious and great, among the trees of Eden? Yet art thou cast down under the earth, among the trees of Eden, where thou must lie among the uncircumcised, with them that be slain with the sword. Even thus is it with Pharaoh and all his people, sayeth the LORD God.'"

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