Genesis 2:8-17

New Catholic Bible

⁸ And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden,^[a] in the east, and he put the man he had formed there. ⁹ The Lord God made all sorts of beautiful and nourishing trees sprout out of the earth, among which was the tree of life^[b] in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰ A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; then it divided into four tributaries. ^11 [c]The first river was called the Pishon. It waters the whole land of Havilah where one can find gold, ¹² and the gold of that land is good. One can also find bdellium and onyx in that land. ¹³ The second river is the Gihon. It flows in the land of Ethiopia. ¹⁴ The third river is the Tigris. It flows to the east of the land of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹⁵ The Lord God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden so that he might work it and care for it. ¹⁶ The Lord God told the man, “You can eat of any of the trees in the garden, ¹⁷ but you must never eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you were to eat from it, you would surely die.”