Genesis 2:5

Genesis chapter 2 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;

Context

v.4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

v.5This passage

v.6but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Cross references

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

Job 5:10
Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
Job 38:26
To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
Matthew 5:45
that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.
Psalms 65:9
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly enrichest it; The river of God is full of water: Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.
Genesis 4:12
when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis 4:2
And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.