Gen 2, 8-14 God planted a garden in Eden

(Gen 2, 8-14) God planted a garden in Eden

[8] Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and he placed there the man whom he had formed. [9] Out of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow that were delightful to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. [10] A river rises in Eden to water the garden; beyond there it divides and becomes four branches. [11] The name of the first is the Pishon; it is the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. [12] The gold of that land is excellent; bdellium and lapislazuli are also there. [13] The name of the second river is the Gihon; it is the one that winds all through the land of Cush. [14] The name of the third river is the Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

(CCC 378) The sign of man's familiarity with God is that God places him in the garden (Cf. Gen 2:8). There he lives "to till it and keep it". Work is not yet a burden (Gen 2:15; cf. 3:17-19), but rather the collaboration of man and woman with God in perfecting the visible creation. (CCC 377) The "mastery" over the world that God offered man from the beginning was realized above all within man himself: mastery of self. The first man was unimpaired and ordered in his whole being because he was free from the triple concupiscence (Cf. I Jn 2:16) that subjugates him to the pleasures of the senses, covetousness for earthly goods, and self-assertion, contrary to the dictates of reason. (CCC 374) The first man was not only created good, but was also established in friendship with his Creator and in harmony with himself and with the creation around him, in a state that would be surpassed only by the glory of the new creation in Christ. (CCC 375) The Church, interpreting the symbolism of biblical language in an authentic way, in the light of the New Testament and Tradition, teaches that our first parents, adam and Eve, were constituted in an original "state of holiness and justice" (Cf. Council of Trent (1546): DS 1511). This grace of original holiness was "to share in… divine life" (Cf. LG 2). (CCC 376) By the radiance of this grace all dimensions of man's life were confirmed. As long as he remained in the divine intimacy, man would not have to suffer or die (Cf. Gen 2:17; 3:16, 19). The inner harmony of the human person, the harmony between man and woman (Cf. Gen 2:25), and finally the harmony between the first couple and all creation, comprised the state called "original justice".