Genesis 2:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

no grass or plants were growing anywhere. God had not yet sent any rain, and there was no one to work the land.

Cross References

Genesis 2:6

But streams came up from the ground and watered the earth.

Genesis 3:23

So the LORD God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which the man had been made.

Genesis 4:12

If you try to farm the land, it won't produce anything for you. From now on, you'll be without a home, and you'll spend the rest of your life wandering from place to place.

Genesis 4:2

Later she had another son and named him Abel. Abel became a sheep farmer, but Cain farmed the land.

Job 5:10

God sends showers on earth and waters the fields.

Psalm 104:14

You let the earth produce grass for cattle, plants for our food,

Psalm 135:7

The LORD makes the clouds rise from far across the earth, and he makes lightning to go with the rain. Then from his secret place he sends out the wind.

Jeremiah 10:12

With your wisdom and power you created the earth and spread out the heavens.

Jeremiah 10:13

The waters in the heavens roar at your command. You make clouds appear— you send the winds from your storehouse and make lightning flash in the rain.

Jeremiah 14:22

Idols can't send rain, and showers don't fall by themselves. Only you control the rain, so we put our trust in you, the LORD our God.

Matthew 5:45

Then you will be acting like your Father in heaven. He makes the sun rise on both good and bad people. And he sends rain for the ones who do right and for the ones who do wrong.

Hebrews 6:7

A field is useful to farmers, if there is enough rain to make good crops grow. In fact, God will bless that field.