Genesis 2:5
and every sapling of the field, before it would rise up in the land, and every wild plant, before it would germinate. For the Lord God had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the land.
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6But a fountain ascended from the earth, irrigating the entire surface of the land.
Cross References
Genesis 1:11And he said, “Let the land spring forth green plants, both those producing seed, and fruit-bearing trees, producing fruit according to their kind, whose seed is within itself, over all the earth.” And so it became.
Genesis 4:2And again she gave birth to his brother Abel. But Abel was a pastor of sheep, and Cain was a farmer.
Job 5:10He gives rain over the face of the earth and irrigates all things with the waters.
Psalms 65:9He has set my soul toward life, and he has granted that my feet may not be shaken.
Psalms 135:7He made the great lights, for his mercy is eternal:
Matthew 5:45In this way, you shall be sons of your Father, who is in heaven. He causes his sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and he causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:5-8
The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the… Read the whole commentary →