◄ Genesis 2:15 ►
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Good News Translation
Then the LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and guard it.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it.

New American Bible
The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.

the man.

Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Job 31:33 If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.

put.

Genesis 2:8 And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.

Psalm 128:2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Ephesians 4:28 He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.

Context
Man and Woman in the Garden
…14And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates. 15And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.16And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:…
Cross References
Genesis 2:14
And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

Genesis 2:16
And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:

Genesis 2:14
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