Genesis 3:23
Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
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Genesis 2:5and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.
Genesis 2:8And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed.
Genesis 4:2And she further bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, but Cain was a husbandman.
Genesis 9:20And Noah began [to be] a husbandman, 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 →