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The Open Door: Generosity and Shelter in Ancient Law

In the days of old, before the walls of mighty cities rose high and the roads grew crowded with travelers, the law of the Lord commanded kindness and mercy toward the stranger and the wayfarer. It was written, “You shall open your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land” (Deuteronomy 15:11). Thus, generosity was the pillar ...

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Eden Scripture - Ezekiel 31:18

To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD....

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Eden Scripture - Genesis 2:8

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed....

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Eden Scripture - Genesis 2:10

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads....

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Eden Scripture - Genesis 3:23

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

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Eden Scripture - Genesis 2:15

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it....

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Eden Scripture - Isaiah 51:3

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody....

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Eden Scripture - Genesis 3:24

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

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Eden in Naves Topical Bible

1. The garden of Eden Ge 2:8-17; 3:23,24; 4:16; Isa 51:3; Eze 28:13; 31:9,16,18; 36:35; Joe 2:3 -2. A marketplace of costly merchandise 2Ki 19:12; Isa 37:12; Eze 27:23; Am 1:5 -3. A Gershonite 2Ch 29:12 -4. A Levite 2Ch 31:15...

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Eden in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

e'-d'-n (`edhen, "delight"; Edem): (1) The land in which "Yahweh God planted a garden," where upon his creation "he put the man whom he had formed" (Gen 2:8). In the Assyrian inscriptions idinu (Accadian, edin) means "plain" and it is from this that the Biblical word is probably derived. Following are the references to Eden in the Bible, aside...

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