Genesis 3:23
Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
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Genesis 2:5Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Genesis 2:8And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Genesis 4:2Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
Genesis 9:20Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant 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 →