And God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there put the earthling (Adam) whom God had formed. And out of the ground (adamah) God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

And unto Adam God said: ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying: You shall not eat of it; cursed is the ground for your sake; in suffering shall you eat of it all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the grass of the field. By the sweat of your brow shall you eat bread, until you return to the ground; for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and unto dust you shall return.

And God took the Adam and put him into the Garden of Eden to work it and to protect it. And God commanded the Adam, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it. For in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Now there was no food in the entire land, for the famine had grown exceedingly severe, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted because of the famine. And Joseph collected all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan with the grain that they were buying, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

Now the money was depleted from the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, and all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying, "Give us food; why should we die in your presence, since the money has been used up?" And Joseph said, "Give [me] your livestock, and I will give you [food in return] for your livestock, if the money has been used up." So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food [in return] for the horses and for the livestock in flocks and in cattle and in donkeys, and he provided them with food [in return] for all their livestock in that year.

That year ended, and they came to him in the second year, and they said to him, "We will not hide from my lord, for insofar as the money and the property in animals have been forfeited to my lord, nothing remains before my lord, except our bodies and our farmland. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our farmland? Buy us and our farmland for food, so that we and our farmland will be slaves to Pharaoh, and give [us] seed, so that we live and not die, and the soil will not lie fallow." So Joseph bought all the farmland of the Egyptians for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold, each one his field, for the famine had become too strong for them, and the land became Pharaoh's.

For the land that you are about to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come. There the grain you sowed had to be watered by your own labors, like a vegetable garden; but the land you are about to cross into and possess, a land of hills and valleys, soaks up its water from the rains of heaven... If, then, you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, loving the LORD your God and serving God with all your heart and soul, I will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late. You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil — I will also provide grass in the fields for your cattle — and thus you shall eat your fill.

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the stranger, for the orphan, and for the widow. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt. Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but in the seventh year, you shall let it rest and lie fallow. Let the needy among your people eat of it, and what they leave, let the wild beasts eat of it. You shall do the same with your vineyards and olive groves. Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in order that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and that your bondsman, and the stranger, may be refreshed.