Judges 3:4NET Bible
They were left to test Israel, so the LORD would know if his people would obey the commands he gave their ancestors through Moses.
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Genesis 2:4
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created--when the LORD God made the earth and heavens.
Genesis 2:5
Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Genesis 2:7
The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 2:8
The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.
Genesis 2:9
The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)