Genesis 2:15 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 2:15

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

On Paradise (397)

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.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקַּ֛ח	vai.yi.Kach	and he took	H3947 →
יְהוָ֥ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהִ֖ים	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הָֽאָדָ֑ם	ha.'a.Dam	the man	H120 →
וַיַּנִּחֵ֣הוּ	vai.ya.ni.Che.hu	and he put him	H5117 →
בְגַן־	ve.gan-	in [the] garden of	H1588 →
עֵ֔דֶן	'E.den	Eden	H5731 →
לְעָבְדָ֖הּ	le.'a.ve.Dah	to till it	H5647 →
וּלְשָׁמְרָֽהּ׃	u.le.sha.me.Rah	and to keep it	H8104 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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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