Genesis 3:23
therefore LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from where he was taken.
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Genesis 2:5And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up, for LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth. And there was not a man to till the ground,
Genesis 2:8And LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 4:2And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 9:20And Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:23-24
Adam and Eve Expelled from Eden. ( b. c. 4004.) 22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.… Read the whole commentary →