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Eden

Named in 15 verses across 5 books, first in Genesis 2:8.

In these stories

Adam and Eve: the garden and the fall

Questions about this

Did God create the devil?

Where

Coordinates

None: the location is unknown.

Identification

Uncertain

The dataset could not locate this place.

The dataset’s editors marked this place as not identifiable with a known site.

Some biblical sites are known for certain; others are identified from old names and descriptions and are still discussed.

Dataset notes

Original location most likely unidentifiable due to the global flood
I don't think we can identify the location of Eden. It would have been wiped out by the flood.
There is some debate as to where Eden was located. Gen 2:10-14 describes four prominent rivers (including Tigris and Euphrates) that flowed from it. Some would say that the river names were used again so it may not have been in that area today, but its more likely it was than not.

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People

Born, died or recorded here, or in an event set here, first; then people named in the same verses, which does not mean they were here.

Adamborn here, recorded as here, 5 events
Eveborn here, recorded as here, 3 events
Cainborn here, recorded as here, 2 events
Abelborn here, died here, recorded as here, 1 event
God3 events7 shared verses
Sethborn here, recorded as here, 1 event
Pharaoh1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 15 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Genesis 2:10
Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:
Genesis 2:15
Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Genesis 3:23
Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
Genesis 3:24
So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.

2 Kings

2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

Isaiah

Isaiah 37:12
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
Isaiah 51:3
For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.

Ezekiel

Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.
Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
Ezekiel 31:9
I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’
Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.
Ezekiel 31:18
Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.’”
Ezekiel 36:35
Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’

Joel

Joel 2:3
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland— surely nothing will escape them.

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Events here

Events the dataset sets at Eden. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 4004 BC
Creation of Adam and EveGenesis 2:4–25
c. 4004 BC
The FallGenesis 3:1–24
c. 4004 BC
Lifetime of AdamGenesis 5:3–5
c. 3875 BC
Cain kills AbelGenesis 4:1–10
c. 3875 BC
God curses CainGenesis 4:11–16
c. 3874 BC
Birth of SethGenesis 4:25 – Luke 3:38
c. 3074 BC
Death of AdamGenesis 5:5

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

The garden in which our first parents dewlt (Gen. 2:8-17). No geographical question has been so much discussed as that bearing on its site. It has been placed in Armenia, in the region west of the Caspian Sea, in Media, near Damascus, in Palestine, in Southern Arabia, and in Babylonia. The site must undoubtedly be sought for somewhere along the course of the great streams the Tigris and the Euphrates of Western Asia, in “the land of Shinar” or Babylonia. The region from about lat. 33 degrees 30’ to lat. 31 degrees, which is a very rich and fertile tract, has been by the most competent authorities agreed on as the probable site of Eden. “It is a region where streams abound, where they divide and re-unite, where alone in the Mesopotamian tract can be found the phenomenon of a single river parting into four arms, each of which is or has been a river of consequence.”

Among almost all nations there are traditions of the primitive innocence of our race in the garden of Eden. This was the “golden age” to which the Greeks looked back. Men then lived a “life free from care, and without labour and sorrow. Old age was unknown; the body never lost its vigour; existence was a perpetual feast without a taint of evil. The earth brought forth spontaneously all things that were good in profuse abundance.”