Bible verse

Genesis 2:15

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

Genesis 2:15 · BSB

Genesis 2:15 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 2.

11 The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

12 And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

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

14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel; 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.”

18 The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

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Genesis 2:15 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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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