The Thirteen Bridal Canopies God Built for Adam in Eden

Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Chukat 17:2

Rabbi Levi said in the name of Rabbi Hama bar Hanina: The Holy One, blessed be He, tied together thirteen bridal canopies for Adam the First in the Garden of Eden, as it is written (Ezekiel 28:13): "In Eden, the garden of God, you were; every precious stone was your covering." Resh Lakish said: Eleven. And the Rabbis say: Ten. Yet they do not disagree. The one who makes them thirteen makes "every precious stone was your covering" into three. The one who makes them eleven makes it into one. And the one who makes them ten does not make even one of them. And after all this praise (comes): "For dust you are, and to dust you shall return" (Genesis 3:19), and "the boldness of his face is changed" (Ecclesiastes 8:1) — at the moment when he said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, (she gave me of the tree, and I ate)" (Genesis 3:12). And the Holy One, blessed be He, likewise changed His face and drove him out of the Garden of Eden, as it is written (Genesis 3:23): "And the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden."

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