Genesis 2:9 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 2:9

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.

KJV

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ASV

And out of the ground made Jehovah 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 the knowledge of good and evil.

WEB

Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

YLT

and Jehovah God causeth to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

DBT

And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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23 verses on the floor

Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Revelation 22:2
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Revelation 2:7
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Ezekiel 47:12
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Adam's work was so far from being an allay that it was an addition to the pleasures of paradise; he could not have been happy if he had been idle: it is still a law, He that will not work has no right to eat, 2 Thess. iii. The command which God gave to man in innocency, and the covenant he then took him into.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), as the heart and soul of it, doubtless God had an eye to that especially in this grant; and therefore when, upon his revolt, this grant is recalled, no notice is taken of any tree of the garden as prohibited to him, except the tree of life ( ch. iii. 22 ), of which it is there said he might have eaten and lived for ever, that is, never died, nor ever lost his happiness.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Its prominent position where it must have been an object of daily observation and interest, was admirably fitted to keep man habitually in mind of God and futurity. tree of the knowledge of good and evil--so called because it was a test of obedience by which our first parents were to be tried, whether they would be good or bad, obey God or break His commands.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Where this verse connects

First Mention tree of life
First mention of the tree of life — planted center-garden, guarded at the fall, promised to the overcomer (Rev 2:7), restored in the city (Rev 22).
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)
Typology Revelation 22:2
The tree of life closed in Eden (Gen 3:22-24) reopened in the City; xylon zoes in both LXX Gen 2:9 and Rev 22:2. THE TREES-THREAD CROSSING POINT - cross-link to /featured/trees. Mirror Row 3.
PD-LXX (Swete); H6086; G3586
Thread Revelation 22:2
The tree of life planted center-garden returns on the Bible's last page — the Greek OT's exact phrase (xylon zoes) — with leaves for the healing of the nations. Access closed in Gen 3:24 is reopened in Rev 22:14.
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)
Inclusio Revelation 22:2
CANON-LEVEL. Tree of life opens (Eden, Gen 2:9) and closes (New Jerusalem, Rev 22:2, 'leaves for the healing of the nations') the whole canon. Feeds Mirror Panels. Hays: coherence + history-of-interpretation very high; cross-book availability is a canonical-design claim (contested).

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The TreesGenesis 2:9 is a stop on this thread.

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H397830× in canon H677933× in canon H158842× in canon H4758103× in canon H127225× in canon H6086328× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

GEN 2:9REV 2:7 REV 2:17
GEN 2:9REV 2:7 REV 2:11
GEN 2:9REV 22:2 REV 2:7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GEN 2:9REV 22:2 REV 22:1
GEN 2:9REV 2:7 MAT 11:15
GEN 2:9REV 2:7 REV 13:9
GEN 2:9REV 2:7 MAT 13:43
GEN 2:9PRO 11:30 DAN 12:3

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