Pomegranates

Juicy gem-like fruit: promised land abundance and priestly ornament.

Scripture

Deuteronomy 8:8

8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

Numbers 20:5

5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink."

Exodus 28:33-34

33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between and around them:

34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.

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