Bible verse
Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
Genesis 3:23 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 3.
19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
20 And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
21 And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
23 Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
24 So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.
KJV
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
ASV
therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
ERV
therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
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