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