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¹¹And the Lord will give you rest continually, and he will fill your soul with splendor, and he will free your bones, and you will be like a watered garden and like a fountain of water whose waters will not fail.

¹⁵Thus, the Lord God brought the man, and put him into the Paradise of enjoyment, so that it would be attended and preserved by him.

¹²And they will arrive and give praise on Mount Zion. And they will flow together, to the good things of the Lord, over grain, and wine, and oil, and the offspring of cattle and herds. And their soul will be like an irrigated garden, and they will no longer be hungry.

⁴¹Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden there was a new tomb, in which no one had yet been laid.

¹²An enclosed garden is my sister, my spouse: an enclosed garden, a sealed fountain. ¹³You send forth a paradise of pomegranates along with the fruits of the orchard: Cypress grapes, with aromatic oil; ¹⁴aromatic oil and saffron; sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees of Lebanon; myrrh and aloe, with all the best ointments. ¹⁵The fountain of the gardens is a well of living waters, which flow forcefully from Lebanon. ¹⁶Rise up, north wind, and advance, south wind. Send a breeze through my garden, and carry its aromatic scents.

¹⁹It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and cast into his garden. And it grew, and it became a great tree, and the birds of the air rested in its branches.”

¹And he showed me the river of the water of life, shining like crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. ²In the midst of its main street, and on both sides of the river, was the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, offering one fruit for each month, and the leaves of the tree are for the health of the nations.

⁷Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches. To him who prevails, I will give to eat from the Tree of Life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

⁸Now the Lord God had planted a Paradise of enjoyment from the beginning. In it, he placed the man whom he had formed. ⁹And from the soil the Lord God produced every tree that was beautiful to behold and pleasant to eat. And even the tree of life was in the midst of Paradise, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

³Therefore, the Lord will console Zion, and he will console all its ruins. And he will turn her desert into a place of delights, and her wilderness into a garden of the Lord. Gladness and rejoicing will be found in her, thanksgiving and a voice of praise.

²³And so the Lord God sent him away from the Paradise of enjoyment, in order to work the earth from which he was taken. ²⁴And he cast out Adam. And in front of the Paradise of enjoyment, he placed the Cherubim with a flaming sword, turning together, to guard the way to the tree of life.

⁸Now the Lord God had planted a Paradise of enjoyment from the beginning. In it, he placed the man whom he had formed. ⁹And from the soil the Lord God produced every tree that was beautiful to behold and pleasant to eat. And even the tree of life was in the midst of Paradise, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ¹⁰And a river went forth from the place of enjoyment so as to irrigate Paradise, which is divided from there into four heads. ¹¹The name of one is the Phison; it is that which runs through all the land of Hevilath, where gold is born; ¹²and the gold of that land is the finest. In that place is found bdellium and the onyx stone. ¹³And the name of the second river is the Gehon; it is that which runs through all the land of Ethiopia.

³¹He proposed another parable to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field. ³²It is, indeed, the least of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is greater than all the plants, and it becomes a tree, so much so that the birds of the air come and dwell in its branches.”

⁸Now the Lord God had planted a Paradise of enjoyment from the beginning. In it, he placed the man whom he had formed.

³⁵then they shall say: ‘This uncultivated land has become a garden of delight, and the cities, which were deserted and destitute and overturned, have been settled and fortified.’