Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 2:6

6. But there went up a mist from the Earth, and watered the whole face of the ground .

To wit, from time to time by Gods appointment.

Or, Vapour, or, Cloud, which going up into the Air, was turned into [illegible: 1+ letters]ain, and fell down again to the Earth from whence it arose.

Whereby the Earth was softned and disposed both to the nourishment of those Plants or Trees that were Created, and to the production of new Plants in a natural and ordinary way. But these words may be otherwise understood, the Copulative, and, here rendred but, being put for the Disjunctive, or, as it is Exod. 21. 15, 17. Iob 6. 22. and 8. 3. and in other places. Or, the Negative particle, not, may be understood out of the foregoing clause as it is usual in the Hebrew Language, as Psal. 1. 5. and 9. 17. and 44. 19. and 50. 8. and Isa. 28. 27, 28. And so these words may be joyned with the foregoing, and both Translated in this manner, There was no Rain, nor a Man to Till the ground, or, (or, nor, for both come to one thing) so much as a mist which went up from the Earth, and watered (as afterwards was usual and natural) the whole face of the ground.

Marginal references: Or, a mist which went up from, &c.