Genesis 2:5

New American Standard Bible 2020

Now 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 sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Cross References

Genesis 2:6

But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

Genesis 3:23

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

Genesis 4:12

When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth.”

Genesis 4:2

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

Job 5:10

“He gives rain on the earth, And sends water on the fields,

Psalm 104:14

¶He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the labor of mankind, So that they may produce food from the earth,

Psalm 135:7

He causes the mist to ascend from the ends of the earth, He makes lightning for the rain; He brings forth the wind from His treasuries.

Jeremiah 10:12

¶It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom; And by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 10:13

When He utters His voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, And He makes the clouds ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, And brings out the wind from His storehouses.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain? Or can the heavens grant showers? Is it not You, Lord our God? Therefore we wait for You, For You are the one who has done all these things.

Matthew 5:45

so that you may prove yourselves to be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Hebrews 6:7

For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;