Genesis 3:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

For prevention thereof, the Lord God sent him forth, or expelled him with shame and violence, and so as never to restore him thither; for it is the same word which is used concerning divorced wives. To till, to wit, with toil and sweat, as was threatened, Genesis 3:17, the ground without Paradise; for he was made without Paradise, and then put into it, as was noted before.

Genesis 3:23

23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.