Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

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

The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Now their settlement extended from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.

It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

“He will be a wild donkey of a man,
His hand will be against everyone,
And everyone’s hand will be against him;
And he will live to the east of all his brothers.”