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 9:20

9:20 Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.


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.”

sn The epithet a man of the soil indicates that Noah was a farmer.

tn Or “Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard”; Heb “and Noah, a man of the ground, began and he planted a vineyard.”