Genesis 2:15

In 11 translations

BSB

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and 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.the man: or, Adam

WEB

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

ASV

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

LSV

And YHWH God takes the man, and causes him to rest in the Garden of Eden, to serve 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.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Then the Lord God tooke the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, that he might dresse it and keepe it.

JPS

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

LXXE

And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden of Delight, to cultivate and keep it.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַיִּקַּ֛ח יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֑ם וַיַּנִּחֵ֣הוּ בְגַן־עֵ֔דֶן לְעָבְדָ֖הּ וּלְשָׁמְרָֽהּ׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἔλαβε Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὃν ἔπλασε, καὶ ἔθετο αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ τῆς τρυφῆς, ἐργάζεσθαι αὐτὸν καὶ φυλάσσειν.

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• Adam and Eve: the garden and the fall God places the man in Eden and forbids him to eat from one tree. A serpent challenges the death warning; the woman and her husband eat, blam…

Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 128:2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
• Genesis 2:8And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
• Ephesians 4:28He 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 2:2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
• Job 31:33if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

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