OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 24

Genesis 3:24

So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim ^† at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Genesis 3:21–24

The LORD God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

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So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim ^† at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

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cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10.

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