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Genesis 2:5

Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

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Genesis 2:5 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 3:23 (8 votes) and Job 5:10 (7 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 1 to Hebrews 6.

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Which verses does Genesis 2:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Genesis 3:238 votes

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

  2. Job 5:107 votes

    He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

  3. Hebrews 6:77 votes

    For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.

  4. Genesis 1:11–126 votes

    Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so. The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

  5. Genesis 4:26 votes

    Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.

  6. Genesis 4:126 votes

    When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

  7. Job 38:26–286 votes

    to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives, to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass? …

  8. Psalm 104:145 votes

    He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

  9. Psalm 135:75 votes

    He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

  10. Jeremiah 14:225 votes

    Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

  11. Psalm 65:9–114 votes
  12. Matthew 5:454 votes

Which verses point to Genesis 2:5?

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