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10And a river went forth from the place of enjoyment so as to irrigate Paradise, which is divided from there into four heads. 11The name of one is the Phison; it is that which runs through all the land of Hevilath, where gold is born; 12and the gold of that land is the finest. In that place is found bdellium and the onyx stone. 13And the name of the second river is the Gehon; it is that which runs through all the land of Ethiopia. 14Truly, the name of the third river is the Tigris; it advances opposite the Assyrians. But the fourth river, it is the Euphrates.
8Now the Lord God had planted a Paradise of enjoyment from the beginning. In it, he placed the man whom he had formed.
15Thus, the Lord God brought the man, and put him into the Paradise of enjoyment, so that it would be attended and preserved by him.
1And so the heavens and the earth were completed, with all their adornment. 2And on the seventh day, God fulfilled his work, which he had made. And on the seventh day he rested from all his work, which he had accomplished. 3And he blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. For in it, he had ceased from all his work: the work whereby God created whatever he should make. 4These are the generations of heaven and earth, when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made heaven and earth, 5and every sapling of the field, before it would rise up in the land, and every wild plant, before it would germinate. For the Lord God had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the land. 6But a fountain ascended from the earth, irrigating the entire surface of the land.
3Therefore, the Lord will console Zion, and he will console all its ruins. And he will turn her desert into a place of delights, and her wilderness into a garden of the Lord. Gladness and rejoicing will be found in her, thanksgiving and a voice of praise.
4These are the generations of heaven and earth, when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made heaven and earth, 5and every sapling of the field, before it would rise up in the land, and every wild plant, before it would germinate. For the Lord God had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the land. 6But a fountain ascended from the earth, irrigating the entire surface of the land. 7And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul. 8Now the Lord God had planted a Paradise of enjoyment from the beginning. In it, he placed the man whom he had formed. 9And from the soil the Lord God produced every tree that was beautiful to behold and pleasant to eat. And even the tree of life was in the midst of Paradise, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
9And from the soil the Lord God produced every tree that was beautiful to behold and pleasant to eat. And even the tree of life was in the midst of Paradise, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
24And he cast out Adam. And in front of the Paradise of enjoyment, he placed the Cherubim with a flaming sword, turning together, to guard the way to the tree of life.
22And he said: “Behold, Adam has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Therefore, now perhaps he may put forth his hand and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live in eternity.”
8And when they had heard the voice of the Lord God taking a walk in Paradise in the afternoon breeze, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of Paradise.