Genesis 2:15

So Yahweh God took the man,—and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and to keep it.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

14And, the name of the third river, is Hiddekel, the same, is that which goeth in front of Assyria; and the fourth river, is Euphrates.

16And Yahweh God laid command on the man, saying,—Of every tree of the garden, thou mayest eat;

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Cross References

Genesis 2:2Thus God finished, on the seventh day his work which he had made, and rested, on the seventh day, from all his work which he had made.

Job 31:33If I covered, like Adam, my transgressions, by hiding in my bosom mine iniquity,

Ephesians 4:28Let, the stealer, no more, steal, but rather let him be toiling,—working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have [wherewith] to be giving away to him that hath need;

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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