“Garden of Eden”—Preserved for Posterity

“And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.”—Genesis 2:8

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1. Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster, Civilizations of Ancient Iraq (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2009), p. 120.