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Genesis 2:16

“And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,”

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¹⁴The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹⁵Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

¹⁶And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,

¹⁷But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

¹⁸The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

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