This story focuses mainly on man; it starts right up to where God has

This story, unlike the first creation story written in list form, could be considered either a myth or a legend. A myth because it is a traditional story that’s explains the phenomenon of the creation of the earth and a legend because it is an unauthenticated story, sometimes thought to be historical, that has been preserved by oral tradition. The author uses narration as a simple, yet effective, approach to describing the Garden of Eden, the land around it and God’s creation of people, plants, and animals.

created the earth and heavens, but hadn’t yet created man, plants or animals. He decides to make a man so that he can “till the ground”(Genesis 2:5). He forms the man out of clay (dust and water) and gave him life by breathing into him with his own breath. Then he created a garden with “every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food” and the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Lord tells the man not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge or else he will die. The story also tells of one river flowing out of Eden (the garden) and separating into four rivers: Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates. God then decides that the man should not be alone, so he makes animals and allows the man to name them all. Still unsatisfied, God puts the man into a deep sleep so he can take a rib from his chest. Out of the rib the Lord God made a woman and presents her to him. God lets him name her too; “’This one shall be called Woman’”. God and the Lord are both satisfied with the Woman and the two live together naked and unashamed.

We can also get an idea of the relationship between God and man by noticing that God seems to be creating everything for man’s “enjoyment and well-being”5 (page 5). The biggest example of this, no doubt, is God’s creation of woman or his “helper” and “partner” (Genesis 2:18). After God established Adam’s duties (to take care of the land and to not eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil) God created animals and let Adam name them, giving him dominion over them (all sources say that). God saw that Adam couldn’t find a partner in any of the animals so He made woman out of one of his ribs. There are a lot of opinions about why God chose to make the woman out of man’s rib. One thought is that it derives from the myth of a Summerian goddess who’s name means “the lady of the rib” or “the lady who makes live” created to heal Enki’s rib. Another can be derived from a quote by Matthew Henry (a famous commenter on the Bible)- “[She

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