Genesis 3:23

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

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Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

In Context

22Yahweh God said, “Now the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. So now he must not be allowed to reach out with his hand, take from the tree of life, eat it, and live forever.”

24So God drove the man out of the garden, and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword that turned every way, in order to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:5No 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.

Genesis 2:8Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 4:2Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd, but Cain cultivated the soil.

Genesis 9:20Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted 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 →

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