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The biblical account of Creation opens in Genesis 1:1 as God brings order, light, and life out of chaos over six days, culminating in the creation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Eden, delight, primeval paradise
Eden, delight; primeval location of human paradise and pristine sanctuary where river branched into four headwaters.
Derivation: From עָדַן (H5727) to luxuriate.
garden, enclosed paradise
Garden, hedged enclosure; specifically the sanctuary-garden planted by God in Eden (Gan-Eden) where humanity walked in fellowship with God.
Derivation: From גָּנַן (H1598) to protect, enclose.
Biblical Place • Damascus • 33.519°N, 36.313°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in Amos 1:5 (identified with Damascus ).
Genesis • Chapter 2 (25 verses)
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had... Mentions: Adam , Eden , Havilah 2 , Gihon 2 , Ethiopia , Assyria .
Old Testament • 50 Chapters
Genesis (Old Testament, 50 chapters). Key figures: Adam , Cain , Abel , Enoch , Irad , Mehujael . Key places: Eden , Havilah 2 , Gihon 2 , Ethiopia , Assyria , Euphrates . Opens with: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth...."
Genesis • Chapter 3 (24 verses)
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of t... Mentions: Adam , Eden .
Joel • Chapter 2 (32 verses)
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion , and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mou... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Zion , Eden , Jerusalem .
Ezekiel • Chapter 31 (18 verses)
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt , and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar i... Mentions: Egypt , Lebanon , Eden .
Adam
Connected via Eden 92%
Messianic Line
Generation 1 • Messianic Line • Root Progenitor
Adam was created by G-d on the sixth day ( Genesis 2:19 , Genesis 5:5 )
Genesis • Chapter 4 (26 verses)
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain , and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel . And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fr... Mentions: Adam , Cain, Abel, Enoch , Irad , Nod , Eden , Tubal .
Rebellion in Eden, Universal Guilt, Total Depravity, and Federal vs Realist Transmission
Biblical-primary certainty on the historical rebellion in Eden ( Gen 3 ), resulting in universal sinfulness, guilt, spiritual death, and condemnation ( Rom 3:23 , 5:12-21 ). Theories on the transmission of original sin (Federal Headship vs Realism vs Ancestral Sin ) are cataloged under scholarly-debate.
Genesis 1
Connected via Creation & the Garden of Eden 86%
Chapter
Genesis • Chapter 1 (31 verses)
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Isaiah • Chapter 51 (23 verses)
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased hi... Mentions: Abram/Abraham , Zion , Eden , Rahab , Jerusalem .
Adam
Connected via Eden 77%
Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 32.098°N, 35.565°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 3:16 .
Ezekiel • Chapter 28 (26 verses)
The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre , Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou se... Mentions: Daniel , Jacob/Israel , Tyre , Eden .
2 Chronicles • Chapter 29 (36 verses)
Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem . And his mother's name was Abijah , the daughter of Zechariah . And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done... Mentions: Hezekiah , Abijah , Zechariah , David , Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem , Eden , Kidron .
2 Chronicles • Chapter 31 (21 verses)
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah , and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin , in Ephraim also and Manasseh , until they had utterly... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Judah, Benjamin , Ephraim , Manasseh , Jerusalem , Eden , Jeshua .
Ezekiel • Chapter 36 (38 verses)
Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel , and say, Ye mountains of Israel , hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: Therefore prophesy and say, Thus s... Mentions: Jacob/Israel, Esau ( Edom ), Edom, Eden , Jerusalem .
tree, wood, timber, gallows
Tree, wood; features in primeval garden (Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge), altar/ark, and tree bearing covenant curse (Deuteronomy 21:23).
Derivation: From עָצָה (H6095) to firm, close.
to die, perish, execute
To die, perish, be put to death; solemn judicial consequence of human rebellion announced in Eden ('in the day you eat you shall surely die', mot tamut).
Derivation: Primitive root.
Interactive 3D Model • Exodus 25:10–22
Sacred gold-covered acacia chest described in the Book of Exodus ( Exodus 25:10–22 ), topped by the Mercy Seat with two cherubim facing one another.