⁵ I made myself ^(A)gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

^27 (A)They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Likewise, just as it was in the days of ^(B)Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, ^29 (C)but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—

⁴ When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward ^(A)the Arabah.

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