LXX reading) to the precious stones set in the breastplate of the Israelite high priest in Exodus 28:17–20. By all the implications, this gives to the original inhabitant of the garden, Adam, a pronounced priestly/kingly character. In Ezekiel 28:11–19, the king of Tyre is represented as an Adam figure, made clear by the location of the garden, the use of the Hebrew bara’, the presence of the cherub, and the idea of sin leading to expulsion. Carol Newsom (1984) argues cogently that the king of Tyre