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Eden

The garden in which our first parents dewlt (Gen. 2:8-17). No geographical question has been so much discussed as that bearing on its site. It has been placed in Armenia, in the region west of the Caspian Sea, in Media, near Damascus, in Palestine, in Southern Arabia, and in Babylonia. The site must undoubtedly be sought for somewhere along the course of the great streams the Tigris and the Euphrates of Western Asia, in “the land of Shinar” or Babylonia. The region from about lat. 33 degrees 30’ to lat. 31 degrees, which is a very rich and fertile tract, has been by the most competent authorities agreed on as the probable site of Eden. “It is a region where streams abound, where they divide and re-unite, where alone in the Mesopotamian tract can be found the phenomenon of a single river parting into four arms, each of which is or has been a river of consequence.”

Among almost all nations there are traditions of the primitive innocence of our race in the garden of Eden. This was the “golden age” to which the Greeks looked back. Men then lived a “life free from care, and without labour and sorrow. Old age was unknown; the body never lost its vigour; existence was a perpetual feast without a taint of evil. The earth brought forth spontaneously all things that were good in profuse abundance.”

Region Original location most likely unidentifiable due to the global flood

KJB,ESV = ‘Eden’

People and places

People born here: Abel (GEN 4:2), Adam (GEN 2:19), Cain, Eve, Seth

People who died here: Abel (GEN 4:2)

People recorded here: Abel (GEN 4:2), Adam (GEN 2:19), Cain, Eve, Seth

Recorded scripture occurrences (15)

References recorded in the source data; this is not an exhaustive list of mentions.

Show passage in OET: GEN 2:8

OET-RV GEN 2:8

8 Now in the east, Yahweh God had planted a garden in Eden, and he put the man there that he had formed.

OET-LV GEN 2:8

8 And_ YHWH god _he/it _planted a _garden in_ˊĒden from_east and_he/it _assigned there DOM the_humankind whom he _had _formed.

Show passage in OET: GEN 2:10

OET-RV GEN 2:10

10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and then from there it split into four rivers.

OET-LV GEN 2:10

10 And_river was_going _out from_ˊĒden to_water DOM the_garden and_from_there it _divided and_it _was to_four heads.

Show passage in OET: GEN 2:15

OET-RV GEN 2:15

15 Yahweh God took the man and put him in the garden at Eden to cultivate and maintain it

OET-LV GEN 2:15

15 And_ YHWH god _he/it _took DOM the_humankind and_he/it _put_him/it in_garden of _ˊĒden to_work_her/it and_to_guard/attend _to_her/it.

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GEN: all 5 recorded references

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KI2: all 1 recorded references

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JOL: all 1 recorded references

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ISA: all 2 recorded references

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EZE: all 6 recorded references

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Words tagged with this person or place

These links follow the source-word tags and may include pronouns. Tagging is not exhaustive.

GEN: 3 tagged passages

GEN 2:15: עֵ֔דֶן

GEN 3:23: עֵ֑דֶן

GEN 3:24: עֵ֜דֶן

KI2: 1 tagged passages

KI2 19:12: עֶ֖דֶן

JOL: 1 tagged passages

JOL 2:3: עֵ֨דֶן

ISA: 2 tagged passages

ISA 37:12: עֶ֖דֶן

ISA 51:3: כְּ,עֵ֔דֶן

EZE: 6 tagged passages

EZE 27:23: וָ,עֶ֔דֶן

EZE 28:13: בְּ,עֵ֨דֶן

EZE 31:9: עֵ֔דֶן

EZE 31:16: עֵ֔דֶן

EZE 31:18: עֵ֑דֶן · עֵ֜דֶן

EZE 36:35: עֵ֑דֶן

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