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Genesis 2:12

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And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
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  1. Ezekiel 28:13Rank 1 from verse 12
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    13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

  2. Exodus 28:20Rank 2 from verse 12
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    20And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.

  3. Job 28:16Rank 3 from verse 12
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    16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

  4. Exodus 39:13Rank 4 from verse 12
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    13And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

  5. Numbers 11:7Rank 5 from verse 12
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    7And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

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Genesis 2:12

COMBINED MEANING

land

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Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.

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good

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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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stone

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Sense 1: A piece or mass of rock. Sense 2: To strike or kill with stones.

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2:8¶ And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

2:9And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

2:10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

2:11The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

2:12And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

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2:13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

2:14And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

2:15And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

2:16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

2:17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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