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Ezekiel 16:5-6 (ESV)

5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.

6 “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’

Adam was taken from the dust of the earth by the Lord and given the breath of life. Israel is taken from the dust of the earth “of the land of the Canaanites” by the Lord, cleaned and planted in the land to “flourish like a plant of the field.” Adam foreshadows the children of Israel taken from the dust of the promised land to live in His presence.