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What does Genesis 2:15 mean?

"Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it."

— Genesis 2:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.

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The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

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The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

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Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

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Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

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but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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