Genesis 3:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground 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

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 caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

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.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever” —

Genesis 3:24

He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 4:12

When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4:2

And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 9:20

Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard;

Ecclesiastes 5:9

But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.