Genesis 3:23
Therefore Hashem Elohim sent him forth from the Gan Eden, to work haadamah from which place he was taken.
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Genesis 2:5And every plant of the sadeh was not yet in ha'aretz, and every herb of the sadeh had not yet yitzmach (sprung up); + 2:5 Moshiach is Tzemach, Zech 3:8 for Hashem Elohim had not caused it to rain upon ha'aretz, and there was not an adam (man) la'avod (to till, to work) haadamah (the ground).
Genesis 2:8And Hashem Elohim planted a gan (garden) eastward in Eden; and there He put the adam whom He had formed.
Genesis 4:2And again she bore his ach Hevel (Abel). And Hevel was a ro'eh tzon, but Kayin was an oved adamah (tiller of soil).
Genesis 9:20And Noach began to be an ish ha'adamah (a man of the soil), and he planted a kerem (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 →