23Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
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And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-24)Sentence being passed upon the offenders, we have here execution, in part, done upon them immediately. Observe here, I. How they were justly disgraced and shamed before God and the holy angels, by the ironical upbraiding of them with the issue of their enterprise: “ Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil ! A goodly god he makes! Does he not? See what he has got, what prefer…
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