Genesis 2:15 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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)

¹⁵ And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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.