²³ Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

⁵ 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.

² And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

¹⁹ 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.

¹² 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.

²⁰ And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

⁹ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.