VERSE STUDY • KJV

Genesis 2:15

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

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

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

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

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

12 And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates.

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

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

18 And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

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