²³ therefore the Lord God sent them forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which they were taken.^(A)

² Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.^(A)

¹² When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”^(A)

⁵ when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no vegetation of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground,^(A)

⁹ But all things considered, this is an advantage for a land: a king for a plowed field.^[a]

²⁰ Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.