Genesis 2:15
And YHWH God takes the man, and causes him to rest in the Garden of Eden, to serve it and to keep it.
Literal Standard Version
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
16And YHWH God lays a charge on the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden eating you eat;
Cross References
Genesis 2:2and God completes by the seventh day His work which He has made, and ceases by the seventh day from all His work which He has made.
Job 31:33If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, || To hide my iniquity in my bosom,
Ephesians 4:28whoever is stealing let him no longer steal, but rather let him labor, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having 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 →