⁵ I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the ^(A)day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and ^(B)destroyed them all. ^28 (C)Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹ but on ^(D)the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

^4 (A)So it was, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out by way of the ^[a]plain.

Life in God’s Garden

⁸ The Lord God planted ^(A)a garden ^(B)eastward in ^(C)Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. ⁹ And out of the ground the Lord God made ^(D)every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. ^(E)The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and ^(F)evil.