The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,(A) and there he placed the man he had formed. The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden,(B) as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.(C)

10 A river went[a] out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:10 Or goes
  2. 2:10 Lit became four heads

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