Genesis 2:8

And Hashem Elohim planted a gan (garden) eastward in Eden; and there He put the adam whom He had formed.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

In Context

7And Hashem Elohim formed the adam of the aphar min haadamah, and breathed into his nostrils the nishmat chayyim; and the adam became a nefesh chayyah.

9And out of the adamah made Hashem Elohim to spring up + 2:9 See Gn 2:5 kol etz (every tree) that is pleasing to the sight, and tov for food; the Etz HaChayyim (Tree of Life) also in the midst of the gan (garden), and the Etz HaDa'as Tov v'Rah. + 2:9 See Gn 3:22, i.e., representing moral autonomy; contrast Ex 9:20-21 where the Dvar Hashem is the guide of life, even for Gentiles

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Cross References

Genesis 3:24So He drove out HaAdam; and He placed miKedem (at the east) of the Gan Eden HaKeruvim, and a flaming cherev which was ever-turning, to be shomer over the Derech Etz HaChayyim. + 3:24 the Way of the Tree of Life, see Yn 14:6 on Derech

Genesis 13:10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Yarden, that it was well watered everywhere, before Hashem destroyed Sodom and Amora, even as the Gan Hashem, like Eretz Mitzrayim, as you go to Tzoar.

Isaiah 51:3For Hashem shall comfort Tziyon; 1 He will comfort all her ruins; 1 and He will make her midbar like Eden, 1 and her ruins like the Gan (Garden) of Hashem; 1 sasson and simchah shall be found therein, 1 todah, and the kol zimrah (the sound of singing). 1

Ezekiel 28:13Thou hast been in Eden, Gan Elohim; 1 every even yekarah (precious stone) was thy covering, 1 the ruby, topaz, and the diamond, 1 the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, 1 the sapphire, the turquoise, and the emerald, and zahav; 1 the workmanship of thy hand drums and of thy wind instruments 1 was prepared in thee 1 in the day that thou wast created. 1

Ezekiel 31:16I made the Goyim to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the bor (pit); and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Levanon, all that drink mayim, shall be consoled in the depths of ha'aretz.

Joel 2:3An eish devoureth before them; 1 and behind them a flame burneth; 1 ha'aretz is as the Gan Eden before them, 1 and behind them a desolate midbar; 1 yea, and nothing shall escape them. 1

Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:5-8

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the… Read the whole commentary →

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