Genesis 2:15

Then the Lord God tooke the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, that he might dresse it and keepe it.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

In Context

14The name also of the third riuer is Hiddekel: this goeth toward the Eastside of Asshur: and the fourth riuer is Perath)

16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Thou shalt eate freely of euery tree of the garden,

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Cross References

Genesis 2:2For in the seuenth day GOD ended his worke which he had made, and the seuenth day he rested from al his worke, which he had made.

Job 31:33If I haue hid my sinne, as Adam, concealing mine iniquitie in my bosome,

Ephesians 4:28Let him that stole, steale no more: but let him rather labour, and worke with his handes the thing which is good, that hee may haue to giue vnto him that needeth.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:9-16

The Garden of Eden. ( b. c. 4004.) 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the… Read the whole commentary →

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