Genesis 2:7-9

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⁷Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man.^[a] He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living thing. ⁸Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East,^[b] in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden. ⁹Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.

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Footnotes

Genesis 2:7 man The Hebrew word means “man,” “people,” or the name “Adam.” It is like the word meaning “earth” or “red clay.”
Genesis 2:8 East This usually means the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers as far east as the Persian Gulf.