Genesis 2:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till 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

The name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:16

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden,

Genesis 2:2

On the sixth day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done.

Genesis 2:8

And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Job 31:33

if I have concealed my transgressions as others do, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

Psalm 128:2

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.

Ephesians 4:28

Those who steal must give up stealing; rather, let them labor, doing good work with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.