8. Now the Lord God had planted a Paradise of enjoyment from the beginning. In it, he placed the man whom he had formed.
9. And from the soil the Lord God produced every tree that was beautiful to behold and pleasant to eat. And even the tree of life was in the midst of Paradise, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10. And a river went forth from the place of enjoyment so as to irrigate Paradise, which is divided from there into four heads.
11. The name of one is the Phison; it is that which runs through all the land of Hevilath, where gold is born;
12. and the gold of that land is the finest. In that place is found bdellium and the onyx stone.
13. And the name of the second river is the Gehon; it is that which runs through all the land of Ethiopia.
14. Truly, the name of the third river is the Tigris; it advances opposite the Assyrians. But the fourth river, it is the Euphrates.
15. Thus, the Lord God brought the man, and put him into the Paradise of enjoyment, so that it would be attended and preserved by him.
16. And he instructed him, saying: "From every tree of Paradise, you shall eat.
17. But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For in whatever day you will eat from it, you will die a death."
18. The Lord God also said: "It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself."