5 When no bush of the field¹ was yet in the land² and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no ^tman to work the ground,

15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

2 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.

12 When you ^twork the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

20 Noah began to be a ^mman of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.¹