Genesis 2:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

Genesis 2:16

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

Genesis 2:2

And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Genesis 2:8

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Job 31:33

If like Adam I covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom;

Psalm 128:2

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.