Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up,(A) for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth(B) and there was no one to work the ground,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:5 Or land; also in verse 6

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.

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but streams[a] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:6 Or mist

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

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39 His father Isaac answered him,(A)

“Your dwelling will be
    away from the earth’s richness,
    away from the dew(B) of heaven above.(C)

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39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

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He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;(A)
    he seals off the light of the stars.(B)

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Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

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He spreads out the northern skies(A) over empty space;
    he suspends the earth over nothing.(B)

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He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

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He wraps up the waters(A) in his clouds,(B)
    yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

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He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

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11 The pillars of the heavens quake,(A)
    aghast at his rebuke.

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11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

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20 Terrors(A) overtake him like a flood;(B)
    a tempest snatches him away in the night.(C)

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20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

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21 The east wind(A) carries him off, and he is gone;(B)
    it sweeps him out of his place.(C)

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21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

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