King James Version (KJV)
Genesis 2:15
“And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”
Verse in context — Genesis 2
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And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
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And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates.
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And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
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And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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