Garden of Eden

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• EZK 28:11–19, engwebp

  ¹¹Moreover the LORD’s word came to me, saying,

  ¹²“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord GOD says: “You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  ¹³You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created.

  ¹⁴You were the anointed cherub who covers. Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.

  ¹⁵You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.

  ¹⁶By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.

  ¹⁷Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

  ¹⁸By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

  ¹⁹All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a terror, and you will exist no more.”’”

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• EZK 31:1–9, engwebp

  ¹In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, the LORD’s word came to me, saying,

  ²“Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?

  ³Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

  ⁴The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. Its rivers ran all around its plantation. It sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

  ⁵Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied. Its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it spread them out.

  ⁶All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs. Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young. All great nations lived under its shadow.

  ⁷Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

  ⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it. The cypress trees were not like its branches. The pine trees were not like its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

  ⁹I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.’

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• EZK 31:10–18, engwebp

  ¹⁰“Therefore thus said the Lord GOD: ‘Because he is exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick branches, and his heart is lifted up in his height,

  ¹¹I will deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness.

  ¹²Foreigners, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow and have left him.

  ¹³All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches,

  ¹⁴to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’

  ¹⁵“The Lord GOD says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

  ¹⁶I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

  ¹⁷They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.

  ¹⁸“‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord GOD.”

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• EZK 36:33–38, engwebp

  ³³“‘The Lord GOD says: “In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built.

  ³⁴The land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

  ³⁵They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’

  ³⁶Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, the LORD, have built the ruined places and planted that which was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.”

  ³⁷“‘The Lord GOD says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

  ³⁸As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the waste cities will be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

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• GEN 2:4–9, engwebp

  ⁴This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

  ⁵No plant of the field was yet on the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

  ⁶but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

  ⁷The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  ⁸The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

  ⁹Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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• GEN 2:10–14, engwebp

  ¹⁰A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.

  ¹¹The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

  ¹²and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.

  ¹³The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

  ¹⁴The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

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• GEN 2:15–17, engwebp

  ¹⁵The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

  ¹⁶The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

  ¹⁷but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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• GEN 3:1–7, engwebp

  ¹Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

  ²The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

  ³but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”

  ⁴The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

  ⁵for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

  ⁶When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

  ⁷Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

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• GEN 3:8–13, engwebp

  ⁸They heard the LORD God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

  ⁹The LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

  ¹⁰The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

  ¹¹God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

  ¹²The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

  ¹³The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

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• GEN 3:20–24, engwebp

  ²⁰The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

  ²¹The LORD God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

  ²²The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

  ²³Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

  ²⁴So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

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• ISA 51:1–8, engwebp

  ¹“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

  ²Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.

  ³For the LORD has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

  ⁴“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.

  ⁵My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.

  ⁶Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.

  ⁷“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

  ⁸For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

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• JOL 2:1–11, engwebp

  ¹Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD comes, for it is close at hand:

  ²A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

  ³A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

  ⁴Their appearance is as the appearance of horses, and they run as horsemen.

  ⁵Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.

  ⁶At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

  ⁷They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.

  ⁸One doesn’t jostle another. They each march in their own path. They burst through the defenses and don’t break ranks.

  ⁹They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.

  ¹⁰The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

  ¹¹The LORD thunders his voice before his army, for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of the LORD is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?

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