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Genesis 3:23

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3:23So the Lord God expelled him68 from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

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  1. 68 The verb is the Piel preterite of שָׁלַח (shalakh), forming a wordplay with the use of the same verb (in the Qal stem) in v. 22: To prevent the man’s “sending out” his hand, the Lord “sends him out.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

NLTNew Living Translation

So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

KJV 1900King James Version

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