Genesis 2:5
No bush of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
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6But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Cross References
Genesis 1:11God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees bearing fruit whose seed is in the fruit, each according to its own kind.” It was so.
Genesis 4:2Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd, but Cain cultivated the soil.
Job 5:10He gives rain on the earth, 1 and sends water on the fields. 1
Psalms 65:9You come to help the earth; you water it; 1 you greatly enrich it; 1 the river of God is full of water; 1 you provide mankind grain when you have prepared the earth. 1
Psalms 135:7He brings the clouds from far away, 1 making lightning bolts accompany the rain 1 and bringing the wind out of his storehouse. 1
Matthew 5:45so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
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 →