“No plant of the field was yet on the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.