Contradictory Creation account? (Gen. 2:8-14)

Gen. 2:8-9, "The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."

• "Eden": Hebrew bə·‘ê·ḏen (Strong's 5731) - First of 2 occurrences of the exact word in Scripture. The word appears again in Ezekiel 28:12-13, "'Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'You had the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering . . .'"'"

• "ground": Hebrew hā-’ă-ḏā-māh (Strong's 127) - Exact word first occurs in Gen. 1:25. This word is used to name: the same ground of "everything that creeps on the ground" (Gen. 1:25); the ground man cultivates (Gen. 2:5); the ground watered by the pre-rain mist (Gen. 2:6); the ground from which man was formed (Gen. 2:7); the ground cursed with toil, thorns, and thistles (Gen. 3:17-18)--whenever the word is associated with plants, it refers to the agriculturally tilled or cultivated ground surface.

Gen. 2:10-14, "Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush. The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates."

• "Eden": Hebrew mê-‘ê-ḏen (Strong's 5731) - Only occurrence of exact word in Scripture.

• "Pishon": Hebrew pî-šō-wn (Strong's 6376) - Only occurrence of exact word in Scripture.

• "Havilah": Hebrew ha-ḥă-wî-lāh (Strong's 2341) - Only occurrence of exact word in Scripture. Variations on the root word reappear as the name of a son of Cush (Gen. 10:7 & I Chron. 1:9), a son of Joktan (Gen. 10:29 & I Chron. 1:23), and a boundary of the territory occupied by Ishmael's sons east of Egypt ("from Havilah to Shur"--Gen. 25:18) and the later territory of the Amalekites ("from Havilah as you go to Shur"--I Samuel 15:7).

• "Gihon": Hebrew gî-ḥō-wn (Strong's 1521) - Root word means, "a bursting forth". First occurrence of exact word in Genesis. The word later appears to name a spring near Jerusalem at the annointing of Solomon (I Kings 1:33), and during the reign of King Hezekiah (II Chron. 32:30)

• "Cush": Hebrew kūš (Strong's 3568) - First occurrence of this exact word. The word reappears as the name of the son of Ham (Noah's grandson), the king of Cush, and predominently as the land of Cush or Ethiopia (a real land in Esther 1:1 and 8:9).

• "Tigris": Hebrew ḥid-de-qel (Strong's 2313) - Only occurrence of exact word in Scripture. A variation on the root word reappears in Daniel 10:4 to name a large river in Persia.

• "Assyria": Hebrew ’aš-šūr (Strong's 804) - First occurrence of exact word. The word reappears to name the land of the city of Ninevah (Gen. 10:11), and later the country of Assyria which carried Northern Israel away into captivity and afflicted Judah.

•  "Euphrates": Hebrew p̄ə-rāṯ (Strong's 6578) - Only occurrence of exact word in Scripture. Variations on the root word later refer to: the river lying along the promised Eastern boundary of Israel (Joshua 1:4); and the river running by Carchemish, where King Josiah was wounded to death as he went out to engage Pharaoh Neco of Egypt who was coming up against the king of Assyria (II Kings 23:29 & II Chron. 35:20-23).