Genesis 3:23
Genesis chapter 3 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Context
v.22And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever—
v.23This passage
v.24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 2:5
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;
- Genesis 3:19
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Genesis 9:20
And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
- 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.
- Ecclesiastes 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.