Cross references

Genesis 2:9

Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:9 BSB

Genesis 2:9 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 16 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 3:22 (23 votes) and Revelation 2:7 (20 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22.

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Which verses does Genesis 2:9 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Genesis 3:2223 votes

    Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

  2. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.

  3. Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

  4. down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

  5. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.

  6. Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”

  7. She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.

  8. but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

  9. but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”

  10. The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty. I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’

  11. I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.

  12. John 6:483 votes

Which verses point to Genesis 2:9?

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