Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
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Ephrem The Syrian
AD 373
God now sends him "to work the earth from which he had been taken, " [ Gen. 3:23 ] so that he who had been harmed by the ease in the Garden might be benefited by toil on the earth.