Genesis 2:5
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.
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6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Cross References
Genesis 1:11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 4:2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Job 5:10Who giveth rain upon the earth, 1 And sendeth waters upon the fields: 1
Psalms 65:9Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: 1 Thou greatly enrichest it 1 With the river of God, which is full of water: 1 Thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. 1
Psalms 135:7He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; 1 He maketh lightnings for the rain; 1 He bringeth the wind out of his treasuries. 1
Matthew 5:45that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on 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 →