Genesis 2:5
Up to this point there were no wild plants or crops growing on the earth, because the Lord God hadn't sent rain, and there was no one to cultivate the ground.
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4This is the account of the Lord God's creation when he made the heavens and the earth.
6Dew came up from the earth and made the whole surface of the ground wet.
Cross References
Genesis 1:11God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation—plants that produce seeds and trees that produce seeded fruit—each one according to its own kind.” And that's what happened.
Genesis 4:2Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel became a shepherd, while Cain was a crop farmer.
Job 5:10He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.
Psalms 65:9You care for the earth and water it; you make it very productive. God, your river is full of water to grow the grain—this is what you have planned.
Psalms 135:7He causes the clouds to rise all over the earth, he makes lightning flash and give rain, he sends the winds from his storehouses.
Matthew 5:45so you may become children of your heavenly Father. For his sun shines on both the good and the bad; and he makes the rain fall on both those who do right and those who do wrong.
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 →