and "he put him in the garden of Eden"; that is, the garden of the law, "to dress it", to do the affirmative precepts of the law, "and to keep it", the negative precepts:''though Aben Ezra interprets this service of watering the garden, aud keeping wild beasts from entering into it.
And indeed the word may be rendered to "till", as well as to dress, as it is in Ge 3:23 and by Ainsworth here; so Milton expresses it; and some have thought Adam was to have planted and sowed, had he continued in the garden.
Pirke Eliezer, c. 2. fol. 72. 2. Pirke Eliezer, c. 2. fol. 72. 2. Tikkune Zohar, correct. 54. fol. 91. 2. Paradise Lost, B. 8. l.