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Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.
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Genesis 2:15 in other translations
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
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12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of Cush.
14 And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.
16 And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
17 But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
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