Genesis 2:8-17
1599 Geneva Bible
8 And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in [a]Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.
9 (For out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meat: the [b]tree of life also in the midst of the garden, [c]and the tree of knowledge of good and of evil.
10 And out of Eden went a river to water the garden, and from thence it was divided, and became into four heads.
11 The name of one is Pishon: the same compasseth the whole land of [d]Havilah, where is gold.
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is [e]Bdellium, and the Onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same compasseth the whole land of [f]Cush.
14 And the name of the [third] river is [g]Hiddekel: this goeth toward the East side of [h]Ashshur: and the fourth river is [i]Parah)
15 ¶ Then the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, that he might [j]dress it, and keep it.
16 And the Lord God [k]commanded the man, saying, [l]Thou shalt eat freely of every tree of the garden,
17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for [m]in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the [n]death.
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- Genesis 2:8 This was the name of a place, as some think in Mesopotamia, most pleasant and abundant in all things.
- Genesis 2:9 Which was a sign of the life received of God.
- Genesis 2:9 That is, of miserable experience, which came by disobeying God.
- Genesis 2:11 Which Havilah is a country joining to Persia Eastward, and inclineth toward the West.
- Genesis 2:12 Or, precious stone, or pearl. Pliny saith it is the name of a tree.
- Genesis 2:13 Or, Ethiopia.
- Genesis 2:14 Or, Tigris.
- Genesis 2:14 Or, Assyria.
- Genesis 2:14 Or, Euphrates.
- Genesis 2:15 God would not have man idle, though as yet there was no need to labor.
- Genesis 2:16 So that man might know there was a sovereign Lord, to whom he owed obedience.
- Genesis 2:16 Hebrew, eating thou shalt eat of.
- Genesis 2:17 Or, whensoever.
- Genesis 2:17 By this death he meaneth the separation of man from God, who is our life and chief felicity: and also that our disobedience is the cause thereof.
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