Genesis 2:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

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  • Gen 1:11-12 : 11 And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so. 12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 3:23 : 23 So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.
  • Heb 6:7 : 7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
  • Ps 104:14 : 14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
  • Ps 135:7 : 7 He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
  • Job 5:10 : 10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:
  • Job 38:26-28 : 26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people; 27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass? 28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. 10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth. 11 The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,
  • Gen 4:2 : 2 Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.

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    8 And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

    9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

    10 And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

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    9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

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    19 And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

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