Wikipedia's first sentence called it “arrested and rose up "upon an heap" at the time of the israelites' passing over”. Today it says “place which appears in the hebrew bible 's book of joshua 3”.
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City of Adam stood "beside Zarethan " ( Joshua 3:16 ) on the east bank of the Jordan , it is called also "Damia".1According to the Book of Joshua , the flow of the water was arrested, and rose up "upon an heap" at the time of the Israelites' passing over.2This village includes a number of families that belong to Abbad clans, such as Masalha and Ramadneh. The land was accordingly owned mainly by the Abbad tribes with land closer to the river belonging to Al Masaeed tribe whose land extends beyond the Jordan to al-Jiftlik and towards the Jericho areas.3
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The opening as it stood in 2010
The City of Adam stood "beside Zarethan " ( Joshua 3:16 ) on the east bank of the Jordan . At this city, the flow of the water was arrested and rose up "upon an heap" at the time of the Israelites' passing over (Joshua 3:16).
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The City of Adam (Hebrew adam ha-ir ) is a place which appears in the Hebrew Bible 's Book of Joshua 3:16 , where it is described as standing "beside Zarethan " on the east bank of the Jordan . There, says the biblical text, the flow of the water was arrested, and rose up "upon an heap" at the time of the Israelites' passing over.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “arrested and rose up "upon an heap" at the time of the israelites' passing over”. Today it says “place which appears in the hebrew bible 's book of joshua 3”. Read the current article and compare.
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arrested and rose up "upon an heap" at the time of the israelites' passing over
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place which appears in the hebrew bible 's book of joshua 3
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