Genesis 2:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouteth, for Jehovah God hath not rained upon the earth, and a man there is not to serve the ground,

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  • Gen 1:11-12 : 11 And God saith, `Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed `is' in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so. 12 And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed `is' in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that `it is' good;
  • Gen 3:23 : 23 Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;
  • Heb 6:7 : 7 For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God,
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'
  • Ps 104:14 : 14 Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth,
  • Ps 135:7 : 7 Causing vapours to ascend from the end of the earth, Lightnings for the rain He hath made, Bringing forth wind from His treasures.
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou -- Thou hast done all these!
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.
  • Job 5:10 : 10 Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
  • Job 38:26-28 : 26 To cause `it' to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness -- no man in it. 27 To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass? 28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God `is' full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it, 10 Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest. 11 Thou hast crowned the year of Thy goodness, And Thy paths drop fatness.
  • Gen 4:2 : 2 and she addeth to bear his brother, even Abel. And Abel is feeding a flock, and Cain hath been servant of the ground.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 2:6-10
    5 verses
    85%

    6and a mist goeth up from the earth, and hath watered the whole face of the ground.

    7And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

    8And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed;

    9and Jehovah God causeth to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

    10And a river is going out from Eden to water the garden, and from thence it is parted, and hath become four chief `rivers';

  • 4These `are' births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

  • Gen 1:9-12
    4 verses
    75%

    9And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.

    10And God calleth to the dry land `Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called `Seas;' and God seeth that `it is' good.

    11And God saith, `Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed `is' in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so.

    12And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed `is' in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that `it is' good;

  • Gen 2:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

    16And Jehovah God layeth a charge on the man, saying, `Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat;

  • Job 38:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26To cause `it' to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness -- no man in it.

    27To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?

  • Gen 2:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19And Jehovah God formeth from the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and bringeth in unto the man, to see what he doth call it; and whatever the man calleth a living creature, that `is' its name.

    20And the man calleth names to all the cattle, and to fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; and to man hath not been found an helper -- as his counterpart.

  • 4Because the ground hath been broken, For there hath been no rain in the land, Ashamed have been husbandmen, They have covered their head.

  • Gen 1:28-30
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    71%

    28And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

    29And God saith, `Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which `is' upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which `is' the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;

    30and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which `is' breath of life, every green herb `is' for food:' and it is so.

  • 26While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.

  • 18and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;

  • Gen 1:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

    2the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness `is' on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

  • 14Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth,

  • 12While it `is' in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.

  • 23Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;

  • 22during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'

  • 7For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God,

  • 10Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.

  • 23I looked `to' the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.

  • 5And Jehovah seeth that abundant `is' the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

  • 1This `is' an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him;

  • 14And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.

  • 2and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.

  • Gen 1:25-26
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    67%

    25And God maketh the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth that `it is' good.

    26And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

  • 8And they hear the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hide themselves from the face of Jehovah God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

  • 9Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,

  • 10For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,

  • 1They asked of Jehovah rain in a time of latter rain, Jehovah is making lightnings, And rain `in' showers He doth give to them. To each -- the herb in the field.

  • 10`For the land whither thou art going in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence ye have come out, where thou sowest thy seed, and hast watered with thy foot, as a garden of the green herb;

  • 5for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

  • 10Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.

  • 10Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

  • 28for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;

  • 9From the fragrance of water it doth flourish, And hath made a crop as a plant.