Genesis 2:8

"And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed."


You know, I thought of something the other day that I had never thought of before, as long as I have been teaching. And, I wonder how many of you have? Where do you suppose he actually lived with his beautiful wife? Have you ever thought of that?


Did God give them a home? Did they just lay down in some vegetation and sleep? Did they just totally eat off the trees and fruits or did they have a place where they could prepare a meal? Have you ever thought about it? I never had, but I think it is something interesting to think about. Where did they actually live?


I think most of us always just think of Adam and Eve in that beautiful garden and that was it. Well, the Bible doesn't tell us and there are a lot of things that the Bible can't tell us because if it told us everything we would like to know, we would have to have a truck to carry it around. But, God has seen fit to make it concise enough that we have everything we need to know and yet, in a book small enough that we can carry wherever we go.


So, God placed him in the Garden. Then verse 9.