Genesis 3:23
So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
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- Gen 4:2 : 2 Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.
- Gen 2:5 : 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.
- Gen 3:19 : 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.”
- Gen 4:12 : 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.”
- Gen 9:20 : 20 Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.
- Eccl 5:9 : 9 The produce of the land is seized by all of them, even the king is served by the fields.
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24When 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.
- Gen 2:15-173 verses82%
15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.
16Then the LORD God commanded the man,“You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,
17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”
- Gen 3:17-226 verses81%
17But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.
19By 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.”
20The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
21The LORD God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
22And 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.”
- Gen 2:8-103 verses80%
8The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.
9The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
10Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.
- Gen 3:5-1410 verses78%
5for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
7Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.
9But the LORD God called to the man and said to him,“Where are you?”
10The man replied,“I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
11And the LORD God said,“Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12The man said,“The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”
13So the LORD God said to the woman,“What is this you have done?” And the woman replied,“The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”
14The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
- Gen 3:1-33 verses74%
1The Temptation and the Fall Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman,“Is it really true that God said,‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?”
2The woman said to the serpent,“We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;
3but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said,‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’”
- Gen 4:11-122 verses73%
11So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
12When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”
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16So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
- Gen 2:5-62 verses70%
5Now 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.
6Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.
- Gen 2:21-244 verses70%
21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.
22Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
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11God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.
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14Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”
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8So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.
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29Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
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19The LORD God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.