Editing Garden of Eden (section)

==Biblical narratives==
===Genesis===
{{main|Genesis creation narrative|Adam and Eve}}
[[File:James Jacques Joseph Tissot - Adam and Eve Driven From Paradise - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''Expulsion from Paradise'', painting by [[James Tissot]] ({{circa|1896–1902}})]]
[[File:CaedmonManuscriptPage46Illust.jpg|thumb|The Expulsion illustrated in the English [[Junius manuscript]], {{circa|1000 CE}}]]
The second part of the [[Genesis creation narrative]]<!--do not remove the word narrative, click the link and read why it is called this-->, Genesis 2:4–3:24, opens with [[YHWH]]-[[Elohim]] (translated here "the {{LORD}} God"){{efn|See [[Names of God in Judaism]]}} creating the first man ([[Adam]]), whom he placed in a garden that he planted "eastward in Eden":<ref>{{harvnb|Levenson|2004|p=13}}, "The root of Eden denotes fertility. Where the wondrously fertile gard was thought to have been located (if a realistic location was ever conceived) is unclear. The Tigris and Euphrates are the two great rivers of the Mesopotamia (now found in modern Iraq). But the Piston is unidentified, and the only Gihon in the Bible is a spring in Jerusalem (1 Kings 1:33, 38)."</ref>

{{Blockquote|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.|source=<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|2:9|HE}}</ref>}}

The man was free to eat from any tree in the garden except the [[tree of the knowledge of good and evil]], which was [[Taboo#in religion and mythology|taboo]]. Last of all, God made a woman ([[Eve]]) from a rib of the man to be a companion for the man. In Genesis 3, the man and the woman were seduced by the [[Serpents in the Bible|serpent]] into eating the [[forbidden fruit]], and they were expelled from the garden to prevent them from eating of the tree of life, and thus living forever. [[Cherub]]im were placed east of the garden, "and a [[Flaming sword (mythology)|flaming sword]] which turned every way, to guard the way of the tree of life".<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|3:24|HE}}</ref>

Genesis 2:10–14<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|2:10–14|HE}}</ref> lists four rivers in association with the garden of Eden: [[Pishon]], [[Gihon]], [[Tigris]] (Hiddekel in Hebrew),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Definition of Tigris (Hiddekel) in the Bible |url=https://www.biblestudy.org/meaning-names/tigris-hiddekel.html |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=www.biblestudy.org}}</ref> and the [[Euphrates]] (Perath in Hebrew).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Strong's Hebrew: 6578. פְּרָת (Perath) -- Euphrates |url=https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6578.htm |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=biblehub.com |archive-date=2024-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203053021/https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6578.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> It also refers to the land of [[Cush (Bible)|Cush]]—translated/interpreted as [[Ethiopia]], but thought by some to equate to ''Cossaea'', a Greek name for the land of the [[Kassites]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=me8sAAAAIAAJ&q=Cossaea  |title=The Jewish Quarterly Review|journal=The Jewish Quarterly Review |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |date=1973 |volume=64–65 |page=132 |issn=1553-0604 |access-date=2014-02-19 |quote=...as Cossaea, the country of the Kassites in Mesopotamia [...]}}</ref> These lands lie north of [[Elam]], immediately to the east of ancient Babylon, which, unlike Ethiopia, does lie within the region being described.<ref>{{harvnb|Speiser|1994|p=38}}.</ref> In ''[[Antiquities of the Jews]]'', the first-century Jewish historian [[Josephus]] identifies the Pishon as what "the Greeks called [[Ganges]]" and the Geon (Gehon) as the [[Nile]].<ref>Josephus, ''Antiquities of the Jews''. Book I, Chapter 1, Section 3.</ref>

===Ezekiel===
{{main|Ezekiel's cherub in Eden}}

In Ezekiel 28:12–19,<ref>{{bibleverse|Ezekiel|28:12–19|HE}}.</ref> the prophet [[Ezekiel]] the "son of man" sets down God's word against the king of Tyre: the king was the "seal of perfection", adorned with precious stones from the day of his creation, placed by God in the garden of Eden on the holy mountain as a guardian cherub. However, the king sinned through wickedness and violence, and so he was driven out of the garden and thrown to the earth, where now he is consumed by God's fire: "All those who knew you in the nations are appalled at you, you have come to a horrible end and will be no more." (Ezekiel 28:19).