Till the Ground. Ousted from Garden of Eden to Farm?!

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16 min readNov 12, 2020

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“Till the ground.” Did God expel Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to become farmers? No. Here’s the meaning of the Biblical Hebrew.

Till the ground. Was that the destiny of Adam and Eve? Learn the amazing significance of this term.

Till the ground seems disconnected as a punishment for Adam and Eve’s behavior in the Garden of Eden. Here’s both the meaning and implication of…

Sam Kneller

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Biblical Hebrew is my passion, the basis of my writing. I ministered & reside in Paris, FR. My books reveal the Bible is a 21st C. handbook. TheExplanation.com

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