garden that he might work it and keep it. Genesis 2:15 seems to point to a restorative rhythm of work and rest, even a restful work. Significant, too, is the fact that God put the man in the garden to work and keep it. This language, “work and keep,” could also be rendered “guard and serve,” and these terms are found together elsewhere in the Pentateuch only when they describe the duties of the Levites at the tabernacle, which they were to guard, where they were to minister (e.g., Num. 3:7–8).9 Once
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