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23 the Lord God sent him out from the Garden of Eden to work the soil from which he had been taken. 24 So he drove the man out, and in front of[a] the Garden of Eden he stationed cherubim[b] and a flaming sword, which turned in every direction to guard the way to the Tree of Life.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:24 Or east of
  2. Genesis 3:24 Cherubim are angels who are part of God’s honor guard. The translation retains the Hebrew form of the plural because cherubs has a different connotation in English.