Genesis 2:15

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Genesis 2:15

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

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KJV

King James Version

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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WEB

World English Bible

The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

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ASV

American Standard Version

And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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Berean Literal Bible

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Genesis 2

¹³ The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

¹⁴ The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹⁵ Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

¹⁶ And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,

¹⁷ but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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