Put him, i.e. commanded and inclined him to go. To prune, dress, and order the trees and herbs of the garden, and to keep it from the annoyance of beasts, which being unreasonable creatures, and allowed the use of herbs, might easily spoil the beauty of it.
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Genesis 2:15
15 And the LORD God took the man,d and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.