Genesis 2:15
“Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it.”
This verse is part of the second creation account in Genesis, which focuses more closely on the creation of humanity and their role within the world God made. It describes God placing the first human in the Garden of Eden with a specific task.
How might this ancient understanding of work as 'cultivating and keeping' shape our approach to labor, regardless of its form, today?