Genesis 2:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no vegetation of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground,

Cross References

Genesis 2:6

but a stream would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground—

Genesis 3:23

therefore the Lord God sent them forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which they were taken.

Genesis 4:12

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

Genesis 4:2

Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.

Job 5:10

He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;

Psalm 104:14

You cause the grass to grow for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to bring forth food from the earth

Psalm 135:7

He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 10:12

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 10:13

When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any idols of the nations bring rain, or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.

Matthew 5:45

so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

Hebrews 6:7

Ground that drinks up the rain falling on it repeatedly and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.