Exactly, 2:15 was when Adam was put there. I guess Adam was around before the tree, who knows where, just kind of playing in the dirt I guess. But God put Adam in the garden after the tree was already there.
The timeline is confusing. In Genesis 1:27, it says, “So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” But then the scripture says in 2:18, “Then the LORD God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.’” And He creates Eve in 2:22. So I don’t know if Chapter 1 is foreshadowing what is going to come later, or there was a retcon, or maybe there were other men and women aside from Adam and Eve outside of the Garden of Eden…?
That is probably the easiest way to reconcile it, yeah.
Good point, that’s hearsay on Eve’s part. That might not have been an actual commandment.
(Just FYI, for simplicity I was using the version of the Bible that the Vatican is hosting, all of Genesis on one page here.)