therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
23. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth גרש, ( gairesh ,) to expel, drive out, or eject by force. Here Moses partly prosecutes what he had said concerning the punishment inflicted on man, and partly celebrates the goodness of God, by which the rigour of his judgment was mitigated.
See the wretch he has made of himself, a god indeed! God's reproach aims to awaken shame and bring him to repentance, that he might see the fruit of sin is nothing but deceit and ruin, never what the devil promised.
AI summary
Commenting on Genesis 3:22-24
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,.... Gave him orders to depart immediately; sent or put him away as a man does his wife, when he divorces her; or as a prince banishes a rebellious subject: for how long Adam was in the garden see Gill on Psa 49:12, however, he did not send him to hell at once, as...