Life in God’s Garden

⁸ The Lord God planted ^(A)a garden ^(B)eastward in ^(C)Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. ⁹ And out of the ground the Lord God made ^(D)every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. ^(E)The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and ^(F)evil.

¹⁰ Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. ¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts ^(G)the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. ¹² And the gold of that land is good. ^(H)Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. ¹³ The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. ¹⁴ The name of the third river is ^(I)Hiddekel;^[a] it is the one which goes toward the east of ^[b]Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹⁵ Then the Lord God took ^[c]the man and put him in the garden of Eden to ^[d]tend and keep it. ¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; ¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ^(J)you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it ^(K)you^[e] shall surely ^(L)die.”