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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 2, Verse 9

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And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
King James Version
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
American Standard Version
And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
New English Translation
The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
World English Bible
Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
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The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where [there is] gold;
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And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone.
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And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
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And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates.
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And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
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And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
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And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.