Genesis 3:23

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Therefore the LORD {H3068} God {H430} sent him forth {H7971} from the garden {H1588} of Eden {H5731}, to till {H5647} the ground {H127} from whence he was taken {H3947}.

therefore Adonai, God, sent him out of the garden of ‘Eden to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

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Cross-References

  • Genesis 4:2 (5 votes)

    And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

  • Genesis 4:12 (4 votes)

    When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

  • Genesis 3:19 (4 votes)

    In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:9 (3 votes)

    ¶ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.

  • Genesis 2:5 (3 votes)

    And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.

  • Genesis 9:20 (2 votes)

    And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: