Genesis 2:5
Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
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- Gen 1:11-12 : 11 God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so. 12 The land produced vegetation– plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
- Gen 3:23 : 23 So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
- Heb 6:7 : 7 For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.
- Gen 4:12 : 12 When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”
- Ps 104:14 : 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
- Ps 135:7 : 7 He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.
- Jer 14:22 : 22 Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”
- Matt 5:45 : 45 so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
- Job 5:10 : 10 he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;
- Job 38:26-28 : 26 to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings, 27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation? 28 Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?
- Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile. God’s streams are full of water; you provide grain for them, for you have prepared the earth in this way. 10 You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow. 11 You crown the year with your good blessings, and you leave abundance in your wake.
- Gen 4:2 : 2 Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.
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- Gen 2:6-105 verses85%
6 Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.
7 The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.
9 The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
10 Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.
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4 The Creation of Man and Woman This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created– when the LORD God made the earth and heavens.
- Gen 1:9-124 verses75%
9 God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.
10 God called the dry ground“land” and the gathered waters he called“seas.” God saw that it was good.
11 God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.
12 The land produced vegetation– plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
- Gen 2:15-162 verses75%
15 The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.
16 Then the LORD God commanded the man,“You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,
- Job 38:26-272 verses74%
26 to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,
27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?
- Gen 2:19-202 verses73%
19 The LORD God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
20 So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.
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4 They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.
- Gen 1:28-303 verses71%
28 God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
30 And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground– everything that has the breath of life in it– I give every green plant for food.” It was so.
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26 before he made the earth and its fields, or the top soil of the world.
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18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.
- Gen 1:1-22 verses70%
1 ¶ The Creation of the World In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.
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14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
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12 While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!
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23 So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
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22 “While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
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7 For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.
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10 he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;
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23 “I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.
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5 But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
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1 From Adam to Noah This is the record of the family line of Adam.When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
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14 And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
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2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
- Gen 1:25-262 verses67%
25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”
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8 The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.
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9 You cleared the ground for it; it took root, and filled the land.
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10 The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.
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1 The Restoration of the True People Ask the LORD for rain in the season of the late spring rains– the LORD who causes thunderstorms– and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.
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10 For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.
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5 For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.
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10 This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.
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10 You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.
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28 By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
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9 at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.