A garden] LXX renders by 'Paradeisos' (a Persian word meaning 'a park'), hence the English 'Paradise.' Eastward] i.e. of Palestine, such as Babylonia would be. Eden] The Heb. word eden means 'delight,' but there is a Babylonian word edinu, meaning 'plain,' and there may be a reference to the great plain in Babylonia between the Tigris and the Euphrates. In the southern portion of this plain an ancient hymn placed a garden of the gods wherein 'a dark vine grew.. its appearance as lapis lazuli.'

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