Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
WEB
Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
YLT
Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;
DBT
Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — 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.
- 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)