He had planted, viz. on the third day, when he made the plants and trees to grow out of the ground, a place of the choicest plants and fruits, most beautiful and pleasant. Eastward, from the place where Moses writ, and the Israelites afterwards dwelt. Eden here is the name of a place, not that Eden near Damascus in Syria, of which see Amos 1:5; but another Eden in Mesopotamia or Chaldea, of which see Genesis 4:16 2 Kings 19:12 Isaiah 37:12 Ezekiel 27:23. There are many and tedious disputes about the place of this Paradise; of which he that listeth may see my Latin Synopsis. It may suffice to know that which is evident, that it was in or near to Mesopotamia, in the confluence of Euphrates and Tigris. There he put the man whom he had formed, to wit, in another place.
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Genesis 2:8
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.