Genesis 2:5

New Century Version

there were still no plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields because the Lord God had not yet made it rain on the land. And there was no person to care for the ground,

Cross References

Genesis 2:6

but a mist would rise up from the earth and water all the ground.

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God forced Adam out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 4:12

You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth.”

Genesis 4:2

After that, Eve gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel took care of flocks, and Cain became a farmer.

Job 5:10

He gives rain to the earth and sends water on the fields.

Psalm 104:14

You make the grass for cattle and vegetables for the people. You make food grow from the earth.

Psalm 135:7

He brings the clouds from the ends of the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain. He brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 10:12

God made the earth by his power. He used his wisdom to build the world and his understanding to stretch out the skies.

Jeremiah 10:13

When he thunders, the waters in the skies roar. He makes clouds rise in the sky all over the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 14:22

Do foreign idols have the power to bring rain? Does the sky itself have the power to send down showers? No, it is you, Lord our God. You are our only hope, because you are the one who made all these things.

Matthew 5:45

If you do this, you will be true children of your Father in heaven. He causes the sun to rise on good people and on evil people, and he sends rain to those who do right and to those who do wrong.

Hebrews 6:7

Some people are like land that gets plenty of rain. The land produces a good crop for those who work it, and it receives God’s blessings.