Genesis 2:5

New Living Translation

neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.

Cross References

Genesis 2:6

Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.

Genesis 4:12

No longer will the ground yield good crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4:2

Later she gave birth to his brother and named him Abel. When they grew up, Abel became a shepherd, while Cain cultivated the ground.

Job 5:10

He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields.

Psalm 104:14

You cause grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth—

Psalm 135:7

He causes the clouds to rise over the whole earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 10:12

But the Lord made the earth by his power, and he preserves it by his wisdom. With his own understanding he stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 10:13

When he speaks in the thunder, the heavens roar with rain. He causes the clouds to rise over the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, you are the one, O Lord our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.

Matthew 5:45

In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.

Hebrews 6:7

When the ground soaks up the falling rain and bears a good crop for the farmer, it has God’s blessing.