Genesis 2:6

But a fountain ascended from the earth, irrigating the entire surface of the land.

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In The King James Version

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

In Context

5and 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.

7And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

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Cross References

Psalms 135:7He made the great lights, for his mercy is eternal:

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 →

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