Genesis 3:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²³ 3 And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Common English Bible

²³ the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to farm the fertile land from which he was taken.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.

Genesis 3:23 Cross References

Genesis 2:5

And every plant of the field before it spring 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.

Genesis 2:7

And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:8

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

Genesis 3:19

9 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Genesis 3:22

2 And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now, therefore, lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

Genesis 3:24

4 And he cast out Adam; and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 4:12

2 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

Genesis 4:2

And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman.

Genesis 9:20

0 And Noe, a husbandman, began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

6 A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?