Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up,(A) for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth(B) and there was no one to work the ground,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:5 Or land; also in verse 6

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.

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but streams[a] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:6 Or mist

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

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