Genesis 2:15
Douay-Rheims
And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.
Ibn Ezra
The meaning of "to work it"is to provide water for the garden. "To guard it" from animals and to ensure that they do not enter the garden and sully it. Some explain that "to work it" means "to fulfill the command [no to eat from the tree], but this cannot be correct because a 'command' is not called 'work'.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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1167 · Genesis 2:15
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