Genesis 3:23
Therefore the Lord God 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 plant of the field was not yet on the earth, and every herb of the field had not yet grown; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and man was not yet there to till the ground.
Genesis 2:8And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden to the eastward, and he put there the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 4:2And she bore again, his brother, Abel; and Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 9:20And Noah, who was a husbandman, began his work, and he 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 →