The Nine Who Entered the Garden of Eden While Alive

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 76:9

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Nine entered the Garden of Eden while still alive. These are they: Enoch, and the Messiah, and Elijah, and Eliezer, and Eved-Melech the Ethiopian, and Hiram king of Tyre, and Yabetz son of Rabbi Judah the Prince, and Serah daughter of Asher, and Bityah daughter of Pharaoh. And some say: remove Hiram, and in his place enters Rabbi Joshua ben Levi.

Themes

HeavenRighteousnessPatriarchs

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