Enclosed garden
The Enclosed garden in E'den was a laboratory.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Note: garden of Eden - Enclosed garden
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
While this was happening, Iblis approached the animals of the world to see which one would bear him into the Garden of Eden so that he could speak with Adam and his wife and tempt them towards evil.
He told her: ‘I will protect you from the children of Adam; you will be under my protection if you get me into the Garden.’ She placed him between her two fangs.
They entered the Garden and they both spoke from her mouth.
The early Shi'ite scholar Ibn Babuya al-Qummi (d.991) records the view that the Garden of Eden was not entirely earthly, and that Adam and Eve were sent down to mountain peaks outside Mecca.
According to Ibn Ishaq, after Iblis was expelled from the Garden of Eden, he married the serpent whose mouth he had entered when he spoke to Adam, and they had offspring.
The Ngorongoro crater, the world's largest caldera, is often referred to as 'Africa's garden of Eden'.
8 For that now their bodies had strange functions; and all flesh that requires food and drink for its existence, cannot be in the garden.
9 Then Adam said to Eve, “Behold, our hope is now lost; and so is our trust to enter the garden.
We no longer belong to the inhabitants of the garden; but from now on we are earthy and of the dust, and of the inhabitants of the earth.
We shall not return to the garden, until the day in which God has promised to save us, and to bring us again into the garden, as He promised us.”
In Gnosticism, the biblical serpent in the Garden of Eden was praised and thanked for bringing knowledge (gnosis) to Adam and Eve and thereby freeing them from the malevolent Demiurge's control.
Book of Genesis
In the second, God, now referred to as "Yahweh Elohim" (rendered as "the LORD God" in English translations), creates two individuals, Adam and Eve, as the first man and woman, and places them in the Garden of Eden.
And the YHWH Elohiym established an enclosed garden eastward in Eden, and there they put the humans.
Genesis 2 – Enclosed garden