Forth

3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 

Again, the woman is not mentioned here.

This is strongly agricultural.  The punishment is being sent from a garden to a farm.  One way to interpret this is as being about the start of agriculture.  It started in a place where you didn't have to know much about agriculture to farm; it was easy.  That's fairly obvious, because nobody had any technical agricultural knowledge before they engaged in agriculture.  But as they gradually ruined the soil with bad technique, they also learned better technique.  Still, agriculture became more and more difficult.  Where once they could grow things easily, as in a garden, later it was hard, as on a farm.

Iraq is a desert today.  That is the result of one of mankind's worst environmental disasters.  Before we started farming there, it was one of the most fertile places on earth.