Genesis 2:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

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  • Gen 2:4-5
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    4The 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.

    5Now 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.

  • Gen 2:7-10
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    7The 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.

    8The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

    9The 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.)

    10Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

  • Job 38:26-28
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    26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,

    27to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

    28Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

  • 15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

  • Gen 8:1-3
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    1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

    3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

  • Gen 1:1-2
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    1¶ The Creation of the World In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    2Now 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.

  • Gen 1:6-12
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    6God said,“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.”

    7So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

    8God called the expanse“sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

    9God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

    10God called the dry ground“land” and the gathered waters he called“seas.” God saw that it was good.

    11God 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.

    12The 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.

  • 7For 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.

  • 19The 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.

  • Gen 7:18-20
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    18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

    19The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

    20The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.

  • 14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

  • 1God’s Grief over Humankind’s Wickedness When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

  • 23So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

  • 12And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

  • 10he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

  • 4They 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.

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
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    5For 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.

    6Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.

  • Job 36:27-28
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    27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

    28which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

  • 17I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

  • 10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

  • 19By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

  • 10You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

  • 9at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

  • 10The 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.

  • 8The 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.

  • 5But 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.

  • 12God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.