RLDS Verse Context

9 Nevertheless, all things were before created, but spiritually were they created and made, according to my word.

10 And I, the Lord God, planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there I put the man whom I had formed.

11 And out of the ground, made I, the Lord God, to grow every tree naturally, that is pleasant to the sight of man, and man could behold it, and it became also a living soul; for it was spiritual in the day that I created it; for it remaineth in the sphere in which I, God, created it; yea, even all things which I prepared for the use of man; and man saw that it was good for food.

12 And I, the Lord God, planted the tree of life also, in the midst of the garden; and also the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

13 And I, the Lord God, caused a river to go out of Eden, to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

14 And I, the Lord God, called the name of the first Pison, and it compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where I, the Lord, created much gold; and the gold of that land was good, and there was bdellium, and the onyx stone.

15 And the name of the second river was called Gihon, the same that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

16 And the name of the third river was Hiddekel, that which goeth toward the east of Assyria.

17 And the fourth river was Euphrates.

18 And I, the Lord God, took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it.

19 And I, the Lord God, commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;