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Genesis 3:23
New English Translation
Genesis 3:23
New English Translation
23 So the Lord God expelled him[a] from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
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- Genesis 3:23 tn 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.”
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