Genesis 2:5 - Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ and every sapling of the field, before it would rise up in the land, and every wild plant, before it would germinate. For the Lord God had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ When no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not [yet] caused it to rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the ground,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;

Common English Bible

⁵ before any wild plants appeared on the earth, and before any field crops grew, because the LORD God hadn’t yet sent rain on the earth and there was still no human being to farm the fertile land,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.

English Standard Version 2016

⁵ When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,

Genesis 2:5 Cross References

Genesis 2:6

But a fountain ascended from the earth, irrigating the entire surface of the land.

Genesis 3:23

And so the Lord God sent him away from the Paradise of enjoyment, in order to work the earth from which he was taken.

Genesis 4:12

When you work it, it will not give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land."

Genesis 4:2

And again she gave birth to his brother Abel. But Abel was a pastor of sheep, and Cain was a farmer.

Job 5:10

He gives rain over the face of the earth and irrigates all things with the waters.

Psalm 104:14

he allowed no man to harm them, and he reproved kings on their behalf.

Psalm 135:7

He made the great lights, for his mercy is eternal:

Jeremiah 10:12

He made the earth by his power, he prepared the world in his wisdom, and he stretched out the heavens with his understanding.

Jeremiah 10:13

At his voice, he grants a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he lifts up the clouds from the ends of the earth. He causes the lightning with the rain, and he leads forth the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 14:22

Could any of the graven images of the Gentiles send rain? Or are the heavens able to give showers? Have we not hoped in you, the Lord our God? For you have made all these things."

Matthew 5:45

In this way, you shall be sons of your Father, who is in heaven. He causes his sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and he causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust.

Hebrews 6:7

For the earth accepts a blessing from God, by drinking in the rain that often falls upon it, and by producing plants that are useful to those by whom it is cultivated.