Genesis 2:5
there were not yet any plants on the earth, and no vegetation had sprung up; for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the soil.
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6A mist used to rise from the earth and water all the surface of the ground.
Cross References
Genesis 1:11God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: Plants on the earth which yield their own kind of seed, and trees that bear fruits in which are their own seed.” It was so.
Genesis 4:2She also gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel was a shepherd, while Cain was a farmer.
Psalms 65:9You visit and water the earth; you greatly enrich her with the river of God, which is full of water. You prepare the corn thereof,
Psalms 135:7Clouds he brings up from the ends of the earth, lightnings he makes for the rain, wind he brings out of his storehouses.
Matthew 5:45so that you may become children of your Father who is in heaven; for he causes his sun to rise on bad and good alike, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.
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 →