5 When no bush of the field was yet in the land 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,
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Genesis 2:15
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Genesis 3:23
therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 4:2
And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.
Genesis 4:12
When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
Genesis 9:20
Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.
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