Génesis 3:23

23 Entonces Dios el SEÑOR expulsó al ser humano del jardín del Edén, para que trabajara la tierra de la cual había sido hecho.

Génesis 3:23 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 3:23

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of
Eden
Gave him orders to depart immediately; sent or put him away as a man does his wife, when he divorces her; or as a prince banishes a rebellious subject: for how long Adam was in the garden (See Gill on Psalms 49:12), however, he did not send him to hell at once, as he did the apostate angels, but

to till the ground, from whence he was taken:
either the earth in general, out of which he was made, and to which he must return, and in the mean while must labour hard, in digging and ploughing, in planting and sowing, that so he might get a livelihood; or that particular spot out of which he was formed, which is supposed from hence to have been without the garden of Eden, though very probably near unto it: some say it was a field near Damascus; the Targum of Jonathan is,

``he went and dwelt in Mount Moriah, to till the ground out of which he was created;''

and so other Jewish writers say ^F16, the gate of paradise was near Mount Moriah, and there Adam dwelt after he was cast out.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Pirke Eliezer, c. 20. fol. 20. 2.

Génesis 3:23 In-Context

21 Dios el SEÑOR hizo ropa de pieles para el hombre y su mujer, y los vistió.

22 Y dijo: «El ser humano ha llegado a ser como uno de nosotros, pues tiene conocimiento del bien y del mal. No vaya a ser que extienda su mano y también tome del fruto del árbol de la vida, y lo coma y viva para siempre».

23 Entonces Dios el SEÑOR expulsó al ser humano del jardín del Edén, para que trabajara la tierra de la cual había sido hecho.

24 Luego de expulsarlo, puso al oriente del jardín del Edén a los querubines, y una espada ardiente que se movía por todos lados, para custodiar el camino que lleva al árbol de la vida.