The name of the third river is the Tigris, which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.

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

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Yahweh there, and he called on the name of Yahweh.