Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- BSB Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
- NKJV Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
- NASB Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it.
- NLT The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ps 128:2For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
- Gen 2:8Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Eph 4:28Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
- Gen 2:2On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
- Job 31:33if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
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