Genesis 2:15

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

Young's Literal Translation

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, it [is] that which is going east of Asshur; and the fourth river is Phrat.

16And Jehovah God layeth a charge on the man, saying, 'Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat;

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Cross References

Genesis 2:2and God completeth by the seventh day His work which He hath made, and ceaseth by the seventh day from all His work which He hath made.

Job 31:33If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,

Ephesians 4:28whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having 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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