Genesis 2:15

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

In Context

14The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

16And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,

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Cross References

Genesis 2:2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

Job 31:33if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

Ephesians 4:28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:9-16

The Garden of Eden. ( b. c. 4004.) 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the… Read the whole commentary →

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