Genesis 2:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

Genesis 2:16

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

Genesis 2:2

And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Genesis 2:8

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Job 31:33

If like Adam I covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom;

Psalm 128:2

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.