Bible Strands
Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator describes Yahweh God placing the man He just formed into a garden He planted in Eden, located toward the east.
The words — וַיִּטַע (vayyitaʿ) means “and He planted,” and מִקֶּדֶם (miqqedem) translates to “from the east,” both anchoring the divine action and geographic orientation.
The thread — This eastward placement echoes Genesis 3:24, where cherubim guard the garden’s eastern side, and aligns with Ezekiel 28:13’s description of Eden as God’s garden.
Why it lands — The text places the newly formed man into a prepared environment, requiring the reader to recognize human dependence on divine provision and spatial order before any subsequent narrative action.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Cross-references
- Genesis 3:24 So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.
- Ezekiel 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
- Genesis 13:10 And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Genesis 4:16 So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
- 2 Kings 19:12 Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
- Ezekiel 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.
- Joel 2:3 Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.
- Isaiah 51:3 For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
- Ezekiel 31:16 I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.
- Ezekiel 27:23 Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.