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6 But streams of water were coming up from the earth. The water made all the top of the ground wet.

7 Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and he made a man. He breathed air into the nose of the man to give him life. So the man became alive.

8 The Lord God planted a garden. It was in the east, in a place called Eden.[a] God took the man that he had made and he put him in the garden.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:8 ‘in the east’ means that it was east of the land of Canaan. Canaan was the land that God gave to his people as their home much later on.