Genesis 2:15

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

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KJV

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

ASV

And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

YLT

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

DBT

And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it and to guard it.

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Note, now, the person who was taken and the land where he was formed. The virtue of God, therefore, took man and breathed into him, so that man's virtue will advance and increase. God set him apart in Paradise that you may know that man was taken up, that is to say, was breathed upon by the power of God. Note the fact that man was created outside Paradise, whereas woman was made within it. This teaches us that each person acquires grace by reason of virtue, not because of locality or of race.

Ambrose of Milan· On Paradise, 397patristic

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And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Entire Bible, 1771reformed

- XII. The Command 15. נוּח nûach rest, dwell. עבד ‛ābad work, till, serve. שׁמר shāmar keep, guard. We have here the education of man summed up in a single sentence. Let us endeavor to unfold the great lessons that are here taught.

Albert Barnes· Notes on the Old and New Testaments, 1870evangelical

Adam's work was so far from being an allay that it was an addition to the pleasures of paradise; he could not have been happy if he had been idle: it is still a law, He that will not work has no right to eat, 2 Thess. iii. The command which God gave to man in innocency, and the covenant he then took him into.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Psalms 128:2
For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Ephesians 4:28
He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
Genesis 2:2
And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
Genesis 5:2
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
John 18:1
After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.
Job 31:33
if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

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PlaceMesopotamia (traditional)EdenThe first sanctuary — a garden planted eastward with the tree of life and a river, lost at the Fall and reopened in the New Jerusa…

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About this book

The Creation of Light — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page, and every stop travels with its words.

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Psalms 128:2
For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
leads to
- Isaiah 3:10
  Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
- Isaiah 62:8
  The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which…
- Isaiah 65:21–23
  They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Ecclesiastes 5:18–19
  Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life…
- Deuteronomy 28:4
  The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock— the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
Through
Genesis 2:2
And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
leads to
- Hebrews 4:4
  For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.”
- Exodus 31:17
  It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”
Through
Ephesians 4:28
He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
leads to
- 1 Timothy 6:18
  Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,

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