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Garden of Eden

The garden God planted for the first humans—a place of harmony with God that was lost when sin entered.

In Eden, Adam and Eve lived in close fellowship with God and creation. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil tested their trust and obedience.

Their disobedience brought sin and death and exile from the garden, setting up the Bible’s long story of redemption that ends with paradise restored.

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Genesis 2:8 “And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.” Genesis 3:23 “Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.”
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