23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden(A) to work the ground(B) from which he had been taken.

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23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

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Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.(A)

Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.(B)

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And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you.(A) You will be a restless wanderer(B) on the earth.(C)

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12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

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19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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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.

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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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The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.

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Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

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20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded[a] to plant a vineyard.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 9:20 Or soil, was the first

20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

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