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15 The Lord God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.(A)

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15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden(A) to work it and take care of it.

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17 To the man he said: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, You shall not eat from it,

Cursed is the ground[a] because of you!
    In toil you shall eat its yield
    all the days of your life.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:17–19 Cursed is the ground: the punishment affects the man’s relationship to the ground (’adam and ’adamah). You are dust: the punishment also affects the man directly insofar as he is now mortal.

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’(A)

“Cursed(B) is the ground(C) because of you;
    through painful toil(D) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.(E)

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