Genesis 3:23
Good News Translation
So the LORD God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed.

New Revised Standard Version
therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Contemporary English Version
So the LORD God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which the man had been made.

New American Bible
The LORD God therefore banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he had been taken.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.

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Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Genesis 2:5 And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.

Genesis 4:2,12 And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman. . . .

Genesis 9:20 And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.

Ecclesiastes 5:9 Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.

Context
The Expulsion from Paradise
22And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. 23And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.24And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.…
Cross References
Genesis 3:22
And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

Genesis 3:24
And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 3:22
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