Genesis 2:5

New American Bible - revised edition

there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the Lord God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the ground,

Cross References

Genesis 2:6

but a stream was welling up out of the earth and watering all the surface of the ground—

Genesis 3:23

The Lord God therefore banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he had been taken.

Genesis 4:12

If you till the ground, it shall no longer give you its produce. You shall become a constant wanderer on the earth.

Genesis 4:2

Next she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel became a herder of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the ground.

Job 5:10

He gives rain upon the earth and sends water upon the fields;

Psalm 104:14

You make the grass grow for the cattle and plants for people’s work to bring forth food from the earth,

Psalm 135:7

It is he who raises storm clouds from the end of the earth, makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth wind from his storehouse.

Jeremiah 10:12

The one who made the earth by his power, established the world by his wisdom, and by his skill stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 10:13

When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar, and he brings up clouds from the end of the earth, Makes lightning flash in the rain, and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 14:22

Among the idols of the nations are there any that give rain? Or can the mere heavens send showers? Is it not you, Lord, our God, to whom we look? You alone do all these things.

Matthew 5:45

that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.

Hebrews 6:7

Ground that has absorbed the rain falling upon it repeatedly and brings forth crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.