Genesis 2:15 “Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to…”

Genesis 2:15

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Then the Lord God tooke the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, that he might dresse it and keepe it.

Darby Translation

And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it and to guard it.

Young's Literal Translation

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

Bible in Basic English

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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In context

14The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

16And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,

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