Genesis 2:8
וַ יִּטַּע יְהוָה אֶלֹהִים גַּן בְּ עֵדֶן מִ קֶּדֶם וַ יָּשֶׂם שָׁם אֶת הָ אָדָם אֲשֶׁר יָצָר
And Yahweh is fixing-up64 elohim, an enclosure65 in Eden, from the front [east],66 and he is placing there the Red-one whom he has formed.
| 66 | from the front is a way of speaking about what is coming. Time is directional. Eden is directional. The Scriptures use an objective term (relative to one’s faces) for direction (Strong’s #6926) though it always gets translated abstractly as “east”. |