Genesis 3:23

3:23 So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

Genesis 5:2

5:2 He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.”


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.”

tn The Hebrew word used here is אָדָם (’adam).