Holy Scripture
Genesis 2:8
A church father on this verse
“Now these things we are under the necessity of setting forth at length, in order to disprove the supposition of others. For some choose to maintain that paradise is in heaven, and forms no part of the system of creation. But since we see with our eyes the rivers that go forth from it which are open, indeed, even in ou…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8And God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and placed there the man whom he had formed.
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6But there rose a fountain out of the earth, and watered the whole face of the earth.
7And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.
— Genesis 2:8 —
9And God made to spring up also out of the earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil.
10And a river proceeds out of Eden to water the garden, thence it divides itself into four heads.