Genesis 2:15 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

5 And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise for pleasure, to dress it, and keep it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and guard and keep it.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

The LORD God took the human and settled him in the garden of Eden to farm it and to take care of it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Thus, the Lord God brought the man, and put him into the Paradise of enjoyment, so that it would be attended and preserved by him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and keep it.

Genesis 2:15 Cross References

Genesis 2:14

4 And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

Genesis 2:16

6 And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:

Genesis 2:2

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Genesis 2:8

And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.

Job 31:33

8 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:

Psalm 128:2

The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.

Ephesians 4:28

For know you this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which is a serving of idols), hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.