15And 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)Man consisting of body and soul, a body made out of the earth and a rational immortal soul the breath of heaven, we have, in these verses, the provision that was made for the happiness of both; he that made him took care to make him happy, if he could but have kept himself so and known when he was well off. That part of man by which he is allied to the world of sense was made happy; for he was put…
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