"... As the Nile is the western limit of Shem’s territory, the boundary now turns to the east. The geographical point named in the east is the Garden of Eden. Genesis 2:8 situates it there: “And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,” and naming the Tigris and Euphrates as two of the rivers flowing from it suggests as much. The writer says nothing further about the location of the garden other than to note that one must venture even farther to the east to return to the Rafa Mountains and the mouth of the Tina River from which the sketch of Shem’s borders began. He also reproduces the distinction made in Genesis between the garden and the land of Eden (Genesis 2:8, 10; see Jubilees 3:9, 12) and includes the latter as well in Shem’s lot ... “He knew that the Garden of Eden is the holy of holies.” The author made clear in 3:8-14 that the garden was a sanctuary, since the times at which the first man and woman entered the garden were the bases of some sort of relationship with one another ..."