Holy Scripture
Genesis 2:15
A church father on this verse
“For (the title) God, indeed, which always belonged to Him, it names at the very first: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth;" Genesis 1:1 and as long as He continued making, one after the other, those things of which He was to be the Lord, it merely mentions God. "And God said," "and God made," "and…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
15And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden of Delight, to cultivate and keep it.
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13And the name of the second river is Gihon, this it is which encircles the whole land of Ethiopia.
14And the third river is Tigris, this is that which flows forth over against the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
— Genesis 2:15 —
16And the Lord God gave a charge to Adam, saying, Of every tree which is in the garden thou mayest freely eat,
17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—of it ye shall not eat, but in whatsoever day ye eat of it, ye shall surely die.