Genesis 2:15
“And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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Cross-References
“For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.”
“And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.”
“Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”
“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.”
“Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”