Genesis 3:23

Holman Christian Standard Bible

So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Cross References

Genesis 2:5

No shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 2:8

The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there He placed the man He had formed.

Genesis 3:19

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Genesis 3:22

The Lord God said, “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

Genesis 3:24

He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 4:12

If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4:2

Then she also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground.

Genesis 9:20

Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

The profit from the land is taken by all; the king is served by the field.