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Genesis 2:15

Genesis chapter 2 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.14And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

v.15This passage

v.16And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 2:2

    And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

  • Psalms 128:2

    For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

  • Ephesians 4:28

    Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

  • Genesis 2:8

    And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.