Genesis 3:23

Modern English Version

therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Cross References

Genesis 2:5

no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 2:8

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

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, because out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, he might reach out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

Genesis 3:24

He drove the man out, and at the east of the garden of Eden He placed the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned in every direction, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 4:12

From now on when you till the ground, it will not yield for you its best. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4:2

Then she gave birth again to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 9:20

Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

But this is an advantage to the land in every way: a king committed to a cultivated field.