23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden (A)to work the ground from which he was taken.

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And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.

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12 When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

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19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
(A)for you are dust,
    and (B)to dust you shall return.”

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But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:9 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain

When no (A)bush of the field[a] was yet in the land[b] and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man (B)to work the ground,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:5 Or open country
  2. Genesis 2:5 Or earth; also verse 6

20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 9:20 Or Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard

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