Genesis 3:23
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis 3:23 in other translations
| BSB | Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. |
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| WEB | Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. |
| ASV | therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. |
| YLT | Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken; |
| DARBY | Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. |
| BBE | So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken. |
| Webster | Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. |
What does Genesis 3:23 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 3:22-24
God bid man go out; told him he should no longer occupy and enjoy that garden: but man liked the place, and was unwilling to leave it, therefore God made him go out. This signified the shutting out of him, and all his guilty race, from that communion with God, which was the bliss and glory of paradise. But man was only sent to till the ground out of which he was taken. He was sent to a place of toil, not to a place…
Genesis 3:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 3:23
- Genesis 4:2
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
- Genesis 4:12
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
- Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Ecclesiastes 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
- Genesis 2:5
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
- Genesis 9:20
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
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Context
- Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
- Genesis 3:23
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
- Genesis 3:24
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Genesis 3:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y sacólo Jehová del huerto de Edén, para que labrase la tierra de que fué tomado. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et l’ Éternel Dieu le mit hors du jardin d’Éden, pour labourer le sol, d’où il avait été pris: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Jehova Gott schickte ihn aus dem Garten Eden hinaus, um den Erdboden zu bebauen, davon er genommen war; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et emisit eum Dominus Deus de paradiso voluptatis, ut operaretur terram de qua sumptus est. |