Why is it meaningless?
Because, as I wrote, the text goes, "There was no shrub because there was no man to till the ground." Now, the writers didn't live in Manhattan, and knew that shrubs grow without human assistance.
Gen 2:5 seems to describe the reasons why there were no cultivated
Cultivated? This is your imagination at work. The text says nothing of the sort.
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