Genesis 2:5

Good News Translation (US Version)

there were no plants on the earth and no seeds had sprouted, because he had not sent any rain, and there was no one to cultivate the land;

Cross References

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed.

Hebrews 6:7

God blesses the soil which drinks in the rain that often falls on it and which grows plants that are useful to those for whom it is cultivated.

Job 5:10

He sends rain on the land and he waters the fields.

Genesis 4:12

If you try to grow crops, the soil will not produce anything; you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4:2

Later she gave birth to another son, Abel. Abel became a shepherd, but Cain was a farmer.

Jeremiah 14:22

None of the idols of the nations can send rain; the sky by itself cannot make showers fall. We have put our hope in you, O Lord our God, because you are the one who does these things.

Psalm 135:7

He brings storm clouds from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the storms, and he brings out the wind from his storeroom.

Psalm 104:14

You make grass grow for the cattle and plants for us to use, so that we can grow our crops

Matthew 5:45

so that you may become the children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.

Genesis 2:6

but water would come up from beneath the surface and water the ground.

Jeremiah 10:12

The Lord made the earth by his power; by his wisdom he created the world and stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 10:13

At his command the waters above the sky roar; he brings clouds from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning flash in the rain and sends the wind from his storeroom.