Cross References

Genesis 2:15

Good News Translation

Then the Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and guard it.

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

He told him, “You may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden,

By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working.

Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed.

Others try to hide their sins, but I have never concealed mine.

Your work will provide for your needs; you will be happy and prosperous.

If you used to rob, you must stop robbing and start working, in order to earn an honest living for yourself and to be able to help the poor.