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ESV — Genesis 2:15; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:8; Joel 2:3

15 The Lord God took the man kand put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

10 And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the jJordan Valley was well watered everywhere like kthe garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of lZoar. (This was before the Lord mdestroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

3 For the Lord fcomforts Zion;

he comforts all her waste places

and makes her wilderness like gEden,

her desert like hthe garden of the Lord;

ijoy and gladness will be found in her,

thanksgiving and the voice of song.

13 You were in eEden, the garden of God;

fevery precious stone was your covering,

gsardius, topaz, and diamond,

beryl, onyx, and jasper,

sapphire,1 femerald, and carbuncle;

and crafted in gold were your settings

and your engravings.2

iOn the day that you were created

they were prepared.

Footnotes

[1] 28:13 Or lapis lazuli
[2] 28:13 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain

8 hThe cedars iin the garden of God could not rival it,

nor the fir trees equal its boughs;

neither were the plane trees

like its branches;

no tree iin the garden of God

was its equal in beauty.

3 pFire devours before them,

and behind them a flame burns.

The land is like qthe garden of Eden before them,

but rbehind them a desolate wilderness,

and nothing escapes them.