Verse 23

therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 4:2 : 2 And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
• Gen 2:5 : 5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;
• Gen 3:19 : 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.
• Gen 4:12 : 12 when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.
• Gen 9:20 : 20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
• Eccl 5:9 : 9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.