Genesis 3:23

New English Translation

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

Cross References

Genesis 2:5

Now no shrub of the field had yet grown 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

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

Genesis 2:8

The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

Genesis 3:19

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

Genesis 3:22

And the Lord God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

Genesis 3:24

When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 4:12

When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4:2

Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

Genesis 9:20

Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

The produce of the land is seized by all of them, even the king is served by the fields.