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Eden in the Bible — where it is and every verse that names it

Region · named 19 times in Scripture · H5729, H5730, H5731

Scripture places Eden in the east, watered by a river that parts into four heads (Gen 2:8-14) — but no identification has ever held. Rather than pin a guess to a map, the garden is shown here in an artist's imagining.

Eden
Eden

Every verse that names Eden

2Kgs 19:12Isa 37:12Ezek 27:23Amos 1:5Gen 2:8Gen 2:10Gen 2:15Gen 3:23Gen 3:24Gen 4:162Chr 29:122Chr 31:15Isa 51:3Ezek 28:13Ezek 31:9Ezek 31:16Ezek 31:18Ezek 36:35Joel 2:3

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