Genesis 2:15

2:15 The Lord God took the man and placed ¹  him in the orchard in ²  Eden to care for it and to maintain it. ³ 

Genesis 3:23

3:23 So the Lord God expelled him ⁴  from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

Genesis 4:16

4:16 So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, ⁵  east of Eden.

¹ tn The Hebrew verb נוּחַ (nuakh, translated here as “placed”) is a different verb than the one used in 2:8.

² tn Traditionally translated “the Garden of Eden,” the context makes it clear that the garden (or orchard) was in Eden (making “Eden” a genitive of location).

³ tn Heb “to work it and to keep it.”

⁴ tn The verb is the Piel preterite of שָׁלַח (shalakh), forming a wordplay with the use of the same verb (in the Qal stem) in v. 22: To prevent the man’s “sending out” his hand, the Lord “sends him out.”

⁷ sn The name Nod means “wandering” in Hebrew (see vv. 12, 14).