GENESIS 2: ADAM and EVE in the GARDEN of EDEN

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Genesis 2 is sometimes referred to as a "second" creation account.  It provided additional details about Genesis 1 but critics claim the two accounts conflict so attention is given to their specific objections. This commentary carefully covers the account details and explains how it is consistent with Genesis 1 and also Genesis 3.  

Genesis 2:1-3 completed Genesis 1, so the Genesis 2 account actually began with v4 and this is explained in the commentary below. Verses 4-6 corresponded to early Day 3 of Genesis 1 before plants appeared.  Then verses 7-25 jumped to Day 6 of Genesis 1 and focused on creation of the humans and their first activities in the Garden of Eden.   

An extensive section of this commentary explains vv10-14 to provide location evidence for all four rivers of ancient Eden that were used as pointers in Genesis 2 to find their ancient juncture and Eden’s modern location south of it.

Origin and authorship

Origin and authorship were not stated for the accounts of Genesis 1-5 so they must be inferred from clues in the content.  Evidence was presented previously that shows God Himself must have originated the account in Genesis 1 (see Genesis 1: Origin and Authorship) and evidently it was first recorded by humans before Noah’s Flood (below).

Unlike Genesis 1, the descriptions in Genesis 2 are plain and lack the majestic literary style of Genesis 1:1,3-4,6,9,11,14,20,24,26. The general words “created” and “made” used in Genesis 1 were replaced with more specific verbs (vv7,19), and there was no first-person pronoun usage ("we", "us") for God in Genesis 2. A compound name was used for God, "LORD God", Hebrew "Yahweh Elohim" (The Self-Sufficient Creator), in place of "God", Hebrew "Elohim" (The Creator) that was used in Genesis 1. The "-im" ending in Elohim also made this compound name the plural form for God ("Gods"), as in Genesis 1. Bible commentators consider the names used for God and writing styles as signatures of origin of different sections of the scriptures. These differences between the accounts in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 imply they had different origins, although both accounts were later recorded by Moses in Hebrew for the Books of the Law.

Unlike Genesis 1 that was written from God’s perspective, Genesis 2:4-25 showed a human perspective. All God made was prepared for the man and his wife. The content and style suggest that the man, Adam originated the account for Genesis 2. God must have spent hours on Day 6 of Genesis 1 personally instructing the man after his creation (Genesis 2:15-23) which suggests caused him to use the reverent compound name “Lord God” (Hebrew Yahweh Elohim) in this account while God befriended Him. Adam's wife, who he later named Eve in Genesis 3:20, instead used impersonal “God” (Elohim) as in Genesis 3:3, but later she used “the Lord” (Yahweh) in Genesis 4:1 for God’s name after she saw how God punished the serpent for deceiving her (Genesis 3:14). The Genesis 2 creation account included what God naturally told the man about how he and his environment came to be. The man would have passed it on to his later son Seth as an oral account or as primitive notes.  Genesis 5:3 recorded that Seth was like Adam in his ways.  He was thoughtful and non-violent unlike his belligerent contemporaries who were descended from his older brother Cain as described in Genesis 4:8-25 ({2}Genesis 3, Adam and Eve's family tree). Adam lived for 930 years (Genesis 5:5) until almost halfway through the 2200-year pre-Flood period. By the time Seth had adult descendants hundreds of years later writing was developed and this account would have been recorded (Topical note 4, Most ancient writing). Origin and authorship information for Genesis 4 and 5 and beyond continues below.

The content of the early Genesis accounts evidently was translated into early Middle Eastern language by Shem's early descendants after the Flood from the original pre-Flood proto-cuneiform documents that were inscribed on primitive media and kept on Noah's ark. They were later translated into Hebrew that was developed 400 years before Moses' time, shortly after Jacob’s family moved to Egypt from Canaan (Authorship of the Hebrew Law). Moses obtained the translated documents from religious Hebrew families during the Exodus from Egypt. He would have learned to speak and write Hebrew while he was raised in Pharaoh's court (Exodus 2:10). So, his early royal education in Egypt helped to train him for the difficult task ahead of writing the extensive books of the Hebrew Law (New Testament Acts 7:22). Moses’ work of compiling his book of Genesis with God's help then shows an apparent transparency about preserving word usage and style in the content of the ancient accounts.  Fortunately, he and the translators before him didn’t paraphrase the earlier accounts into their own words- their care evidently preserved the word usage and style by the originators.  Otherwise, these subtleties that provide important clues about origin and authorship would have been forever lost. 

The Genesis 2 commentary

God rested on the 7th day of creation week after His work was completed, perhaps to enjoy His creations. God really worked to make the earth into a habitat with life during six days of the earth’s rotation. And especially to make all of the different life forms complete with their unique complex structural and functional biochemistry and regulating genetic mechanisms during their embryonic developments and adult lives. The responsiveness of the genetic code’s regulation to environmental changes and passing these changes to progeny has preserved them since their creation (Topical note 6{26}, continuous environmental tracking). Later God commanded the Hebrews to keep this weekly work schedule as part of His Law (Exodus 20:11), which suggests another reason for the six-day creation week that was followed by His day of rest. Interestingly, this seven-day work week is closely marked in the sky by the continuous sequential four visual lunar phases each month: new moon, half moon, full moon, half moon...  This visual astronomical marker occurs 7.2 days per week throughout each lunar month.

Bible commentators have noticed that Genesis 2:1-3 ended the account in Genesis 1 because its authorship signature, Hebrew Elohim is still used for "God" although these verses appear here in Genesis 2. Chapter and verse numbers were added much later to the text of printed bibles that started in medieval Europe and sometimes they were not well placed. v4. This verse begins the actual Genesis 2 account. In English bibles "LORD God", for Hebrew Yahweh Elohim is first used here and then throughout Genesis 2. vv5-7. The first plants and creation of humans:

The ground was first watered by “streams”, [“mist”, KJV], that arose from within the earth. Periodic rainfall provided well-watered ground for plants (implied by v5) starting on Day 4 of Genesis 1{1}. (See Genesis 1: 14-19 commentary, Plant growth and periodic rainfall.) Fruit-bearing trees, perhaps small bush-size ones grew quickly by Day 6 (v9) in this lush environment (Topical note 5)!

Then God formed (written Hebrew “iitzr”) or made (from Genesis 1:26), the man’s body from Earth’s dust. Some bible versions use “soil” or “slime” that included its water content.  The science behind the literary descriptive writing style of creating creatures’ bodies was explained previously in the Genesis 1: Creation, The Six Days, 6th day commentary. And God breathed (Hebrew “iphch”) in life, or created the man’s consciousness ["soul", KJV]. So evidently, God made a human mannequin from clay that came to life when He breathed into its nostrils!  Genesis 2:7 includes these details absent in the brief account in Genesis 1:26-27. The imagery from the text describes Him as God in human form. He apparently was the pre-incarnate Messiah (Isaiah 7:14), or Christ, in God’s triunity Who later lived as a human during New Testament times.

Later verses in Genesis 2 describe the man's first activities (v15) and creation of the woman (v22) all on Day 6 of Genesis 1.  This account describes the humans were both created and made fully mature (vv15, 22) as a young couple with a spoken language (Genesis 1:29, 2:23, 3:2-3). Genesis 11:5-9 and New Testament Acts 2:4-12 show God controls human speech and its understanding.  Later, the humans would till the soil to cultivate plants for their food (Genesis 2:5, 3:17-18).

Rain and rainbows: Some believe no rainfall occurred before the Flood (Topical note 4, Noah’s Flood) because God first mentions His rainbow afterwards (Gen 9:12-15). However, v5 implies that rain fell on land to water the plants when they were growing. As described above, increased evaporation from transpiring plants growing everywhere in the intense sunlight that started on the 4th day caused scattered clouds to form that brought intermittent rainfall on the land as part of Earth’s water cycle. Plants both require rain and assist producing it.

An obvious rainbow requires sunshine and rain to be on opposite sides of the sky. If there were no rainbows before the Flood yet rain occurred, either the time of day or the way rain fell prevented them. Rain that fell only near local midday or at night would not cause a visible rainbow. Mountain-building plate tectonics did not exist before the Flood (according to creation geology). So pre-Flood Pangea had no high mountains that produced adiabatic cooling of air masses (Topical note 4, Plate tectonics and Flood geology), or extensive land regions of snow and ice and desert that have large temperature differences that drive air currents like today. The world’s new climate after the Flood when God made His rainbow promise caused violent storms including hurricanes any time of day and surely caused rainbows. (However, if rainbows were seen in rainy skies before the Flood, then after it they took on the new meaning that God promised Noah He would never again flood the whole earth.)

vv8-9. The Garden of Eden:

God "planted" (meaning from seeds He made in the soil) a manicured garden, or park, in Eden. This was on Day 3 of the Genesis 1 account. Eden was a well-watered region (v10) in the eastern part of the single land continent (v8), and the Garden there was its most idyllic place. Trees, perhaps small bush sized ones, had grown from Day 3 to Day 6 that God selected for both natural beauty and to bear luscious fruits for the man’s habitat that he shared with docile creatures. The Garden provided enough living space for them all (v19), yet it was small enough for the man to care for (v15). It was protected perhaps by impassably dense, thorny vegetation all around that could be traversed only through a natural entrance on the east side (Genesis 3:24). Plants outside the Garden were mostly fast-growing thorny weeds that didn't produce edible food for humans (Genesis 3:17-19). East of Eden in the land of Nod the ground was less fertile (Genesis 4:12,16).

vv10-14. The four rivers and the location of Eden.

An unnamed river in Eden that was sourced by pressurized subterranean water (v6) arose that watered the Garden (v10) then split into four surface rivers where it flowed out of Eden. Verses 11-14 that describe these river courses are likely a later explanatory editorial update not written by Moses.  The writer states the rivers are each associated with a post-Flood nation in Genesis 10 that in present tense “winds through” it.  This wording in holy writ seems to state these post-Flood rivers were Eden’s same rivers: the Pishon in Havilah, the Gihon in Cush*, the Hiddekel (or more recently, Tigris) in eastern Asshur, and the Perat, Prath, Perath (or more recently, Euphrates).

*Cush is the best translation. A few bibles use Ethiopia [KJV] or Sudan.

Bible commentators have tried to use these four rivers to locate Eden today purely from clues in vv10-14, but only locations for the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern Iraq are now known with certainty.  Positive identification of the Gihon and Pishon rivers based on scripture is confusing. Although the ancient lands of Cush and Havilah were used as pointers for them there were two locations for Cush- one each in Mesopotamia (see ancient map{1}), and Africa. And there were three locations for Havilah- two in Arabia and one in Africa (internet Table of Nations of maps) and the natural resources used as identifiers in vv11-12 were common to all three Havilahs.  The scripture editor didn’t explain which Cush and Havilah he meant so presumably he referred to the original (oldest) settlements{1} near Shinar in Mesopotamia where Ham’s descendants first located (Genesis Note 3, Where did Noah’s descendants first settle…). The Pishon and Gihon rivers then joined the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, outside of Eden.  The terrain drained by the Pishon and Gihon rivers apparently became drier in modern times so their ancient beds shrunk and they are now hard to identify.  A dry wadi, (Wadi Batin) through modern Arabia was proposed to be part of the ancient bed of the Pishon river.  Identifying the Gihon River has been confused by the two locations for Cush.  The Karun River in modern Iran was suggested to be a remnant of the Gihon{2} in Mesopotamia and it is easy to imagine its path continuing east into the global ocean shown on the Pangea interactive map{4}.  That the Gihon remnant is instead the Blue Nile River has been a popular view because of its association with Cush in Africa (Ethiopia), but it is very distant and disconnected from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia.  The smaller, older Cush location in Mesopotamia that appears on an ancient middle east map{1} helps to locate the Gihon but it is not shown on internet Table of Nations maps. 

A post-Flood map{2} shows the four rivers flowing toward their junction, opposite the direction described in v10. Before the Flood, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flowed away from their junction in Eden, as described in (v10), northward to the ancient Tethys Sea that appears on a map of Pangea{3}. (The unlabeled Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Tethys Sea are shown on the Pangea interactive map{4}.) The flow direction of all four rivers reversed in their ancient riverbeds after the Flood. The breakup of Earth’s pressurized subterranean waters at the start of the Flood (Genesis 6:11) ended the water source for Eden’s great river. Then continental drift during and after the Flood closed the east end of the ancient Tethys Sea that was originally open to the global ocean{3} and formed the huge inland Mediterranean Sea. These land movements that caused the breakup of the old super-continent of Pangea{4} also uplifted the southern shoreline of what was the Tethys Sea. So, the topography of what is now eastern Turkey and eastward through Iran, northern India, and China rose into high snow-capped mountains after the Flood (Topical note 4, Plate tectonics and Flood geology). The Tigris and Euphrates rivers now carry meltwater from these high snowy mountains down and southward in their pre-Flood riverbeds and empty into the Persian Gulf{2}. Ancient Eden and its garden were south of the modern Tigris-Euphrates river juncture that is now in southern Iraq. So, today what was ancient Eden is under the waters of the Persian Gulf{2,2a}. 

The ancient Eridu Genesis epic (Topical note 4, Mesopotamian flood stories) told that the hero boat builder who saved the humans and animals from the global flood was given eternal life in Dilmun (Bahrain Island in the Persian Gulf). So, this was a legendary paradise in ancient times, and perhaps Bahrain Island is the only dry land of ancient Eden that is above sea level today.

The first human migration after the Flood:

Noah’s descendants migrated down from the mountains of Ararat into Mesopotamia as they grew in numbers after the Flood, and then they first explored the southern plain of Shinar. They would have recognized the branching pattern of these four rivers was the same as those of Eden before the Flood, but they flowed opposite their original directions and toward their juncture. (The ark evidently was launched from pre-Flood Mesopotamia by Noah's family just a year before so Noah's sons were still familiar with the pre-Flood terrain. Topical Note 4- Noah's Flood.) The new terrain looked completely different after the Flood (see below) but the same river pattern made them realize the plain of Shinar was near Eden before the Flood. Naturally they named the newly discovered rivers with their original namesakes from Eden and scripture explanatory revisionists later updated them to their more modern names in vv11-14. Evidently, the fresh sediments that were deposited in their 2,200 year-old riverbeds during the one-year Flood washed away afterwards when the Flood waters receded and heavy rains and melting snow from the northern high mountains flowed southward to what is now the Persian Gulf.

The people might have also encountered some stone rubble from the ruined five “antediluvian” cities that today are associated with the most ancient archaeological sites in Iraq. These pre-Flood cities of Eridu, Bad-tibira, Larak, Zimbir (Sippar), and Shuruppak were introduced in Topical note 3, Where are the earliest human settlements from archaeology? Their names are from the "antediluvian" section at the head of the Sumerian King list. (Referenced active web links to visit are in Topical notes 3, 4). At least Eridu and Shuruppak were inhabited for many centuries in historic post-Flood Mesopotamia so evidently they were rebuilt after the Flood. If they were built on their original pre-Flood sites this would confirm some rubble survived the Flood that guided rebuilding them. Presumably the early Mesopotamian historians included the antediluvian section of the Sumerian King List* because debris from these ruined cities confirmed that post-Flood Sumer was the original five-city population center before the Flood interrupted the continuity of ruler ship.

*Different versions of the Sumerian King List inscribed on stone prisms have been discovered in Mesopotamia. Apparently they originated from memories by Noah's son, Ham’s (Nimrod’s) descendants who lived in Shinar after the Flood. They started as oral traditions before cuneiform writing to record them was developed, and each oral tradition eventually produced a somewhat different inscribed version.

Should it seem incredulous that any human landmarks survived Noah’s Flood, Josephus described a stone pillar that was inscribed (in writing!) by the descendants of Adam’s son Seth that recorded their technical astronomical knowledge before the Flood. Josephus recorded that this inscribed pre-Flood stone pillar survived at least until his time in the 1st century CE ({2} Topical note 4).

Click on live web links to select internet references: {1} https://wsopne7777.wordpress.com/materials-study-ethic/ancient-cush-map/

(Ancient middle east map, click on map for enlarged view) {2}https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fqph.cf2.quoracdn.net%2Fmain-qimg-d7770b90aecda061d4c7c69e00f4bc00&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-if-the-four-rivers-of-Eden-were-actually-referencing-the-four-Oceans-Atlantic-Arctic-Indian-and-Pacific&tbnid=M7hzxHo6a2RQIM&vet=12ahUKEwiMndvJ06b3AhXvHzQIHQmED4oQMygFegUIARDGAQ..i&docid=c1GhFzDN4kEByM&w=364&h=359&q=four%20rivers%20of%20eden%20map&client=firefox-b-1-d&ved=2ahUKEwiMndvJ06b3AhXvHzQIHQmED4oQMygFegUIARDGAQ

(Juris Zarins’ map showing Eden’s location under the Persian Gulf that is supported by ancient historical and scriptural evidence)

{2a}https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Zarins

(Archaeologist Juris Zarin) {3} https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Tethys-Sea

(Pangea maps showing ancient Tethys Sea) {4} https://brilliantmaps.com/interact

(Pangea interactive map shows how seamlessly the land of modern nations used to fit together before the breakup of the original land mass.) {5} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pishon

(Pishon River) vv15-17. Life in the Garden of Eden.

The events of vv15-25 correspond to Day 6 in the Genesis 1 creation account.  God put the man in the garden and gave him useful work to take care of it.  He was allowed to eat fruit from any tree there, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden (v9) which supplied nutrients that would allow him to live forever (Genesis 3:22). 

Critics' objection:

The "tree of life" is not a far-fetched myth! Specialty drug companies are now marketing natural supplements in tablet for sale on the internet that research with humans confirms their ingredients actually induce the body to produce its own adult repair stem cells.  Scientific studies in recent years at leading nationwide universities previously showed they prevent age related eye ailments in zebra fish and mice. The drug companies have shown these human adult repair stem cells spread all over the body and assimilate into degenerating, aging tissues where they rebuild them and cure human macular degeneration, cataracts, and other human eye maladies without surgery.  They also regenerate other types of human tissues. God certainly could have made such special nutrients available for humans to eat from the tree of life in the Garden of Eden!  The tree of life is mentioned again in Revelation 22:2,7 when these planted trees will line streets on Earth and humans will freely eat their leaves for healing. Will these commercial nutrient supplements allow humans to live forever?  God doesn’t want humans to live forever now, so don’t expect it!

v17. But the man was FORBIDDEN to eat fruit from the nearby tree of the knowledge of good and evil, or God said he would surely die (below).  This was apparently God’s single test of the man’s loyalty- to simply believe His word after he saw all the good things He had already given to him.  The man would not lack anything that he needed by not eating fruit from this tree. 

Critics’ objection:

Didn't God mean the humans would physically die immediately or the same day if they ate the forbidden fruit?

Most bibles (other than the referenced NIV) translate God’s death warning in Genesis 2:17 as the humans would die “the same day” if they ate the forbidden fruit.  However, their sudden physical death apparently wasn’t God’s intended meaning because after they ate the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:6), the later accounts in Genesis 4 and 5 recorded the human couple continued to live for hundreds of years and had many children.

The commentary for Genesis 1:26-27 explained that humans were initially created in God’s “likeness” but they could lose it by choosing to disobey Him and become unlike Him then fall from His favor.  Conservative theologians have interpreted v17 to mean they would immediately die spiritually in their trespass of disobedience, and become alienated from God* when He withdrew His friendship from them on the same day.  God’s judgments in Genesis 3:23-24 recorded this and that they also began to die physically because they no longer would be able to eat from the “tree of life” in the garden*.

*Haley, John, Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible, p393, Whitaker House publ, (paperback book) 0-88368-157-9.

vv18-25. The universal spoken language:

After the man learned to groom the Garden (v15) God brought the Garden’s land animals and birds He had formed (see critics' objection below) [c1984 NIV] to him to name because God commanded him to rule over them (Genesis 1:28). The man naturally would have named each creature after a unique distinguishing feature it had.  This provided a clue about what the serpent looked like (Genesis 3 commentary).  Jewish historian Josephus recorded that humans and living creatures [and God] originally spoke a common language then* so the animals and birds in the Garden would have understood their names that the man gave them, and the blessings and commands that God spoke to them all (Genesis 1:22,30).  More about the serpent and animal speech are explained in the Genesis 3 commentary.

* Maier, Paul, 1988, Josephus- The Essential Writings, Kregel publ, p20.

Naming the animals in the Garden also showed Adam how different he was from them.  Each animal had its mate.  However, Adam saw no animals that could be the suitable companion for him who God planned he should have (v18) and would reproduce humans (Genesis 1:27, 3:20). (This implied animal sex paring in Genesis 1:20,24, but it was specifically stated later in Genesis 6:19.)

Critics’ objection: Were animals made before or after the man?

The original Hebrew in v19 used present-perfect tense “is forming” (written Hebrew “u itzr”) about the animals that is normally translated as past tense in English. This might seem to say God formed the animals after He formed the man and would conflict with the Genesis 1 account. However, theological consensus is that the Genesis 2 account summarized the Genesis 1 account without regard to strict chronological order**. Several English bibles including the popular NIV referenced by this commentary translated v19 in the past-perfect tense for “formed” in English as “…the Lord God had formed all of the beasts...” to clarify that He made the animals before the man. These translators believed the same meaning that was clearly stated in Genesis 1:24-28 was intended in Genesis 2:19 (see on-line Parallel Bible and select “Compare translations” for v19).

* Scripture4All on-line Hebrew interlinear bible.

** Haley, John, Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible, p408, Whitaker House publ, (paperback book) 0-88368-157-9.

Internal content evidence as described earlier suggests the account in Genesis 2 was originated by eye-witness Adam who emphasized that all God made was for the humans’ benefit. It would have been translated at least twice from pre-Flood writing into Hebrew (see Genesis 4 and 5, Information trail…) for the Torah Moses originally wrote (see Authorship of the Hebrew Law). Primitive pre-Flood (proto-cuneiform) writing didn’t have the grammatical subtleties, such as a perfect verb tense of the later written languages. So precise meanings would need to be inferred from context. Although the Genesis 2 account is otherwise straight-forward and makes sense, perhaps this ancient account or a later translation used a verb tense for “form” in v19 that functionally ignored the literal chronological event order (above). Sincere seekers should investigate apparent conflicts in Old Testament scripture with a conservative biblical Hebrew scholar* or conservative reference books that explain “alleged biblical discrepancies” (see reference above) before dismissing the accuracy of the whole bible over them.

* Staff at conservative Jewish-Christian ministries should be able to provide answers or referrals. Many Messianic Jewish ministries are listed on an internet search of this topic. Jewish rabbis of Orthodox and Conservative, and especially Messianic congregations may offer help.

Creation of the woman:

After Adam named all the animals in the Garden and found no suitable mate for himself among them God created the woman who would be his companion (v20). Genesis 1:26-27 records humans were both created and made, verbs that were previously explained to have different specific meanings in Genesis 1. 

The woman’s spiritual consciousness was created “ex nihilo” (from nothing) when her body was made. And He made her body from the man who was to be her husband rather than from another clay manikin, like the man (vv21-22).  By making this living illustration that she was part of him God showed them He intended her to be the man’s lifetime companion as a role model relationship for future human families. And the man was to benevolently care for his wife who came from his own body (vv23-24).  Much later in the Hebrew scriptures God spoke through certain of His prophets also by using living illustrations that included these teaching examples: Isaiah 20:2-5, Jeremiah 27:2-8, 32:6-15; and Ezekiel 37:1-14. When God introduced the woman to the man (v22) He would have explained her companionship role that He intended for their relationship (v18). Because God trained the man earlier on Day 6 before He created and made the woman He intended the man to have the leadership role in future human families. The written Hebrew word “ozr” in v18 that was translated as “helper” [NIV] might seem demeaning, but some other English bible versions use “companion” or “partner”.  That Genesis 5:2 recorded God originally called both humans Hebrew “adm”, or “man” (meaning mankind) showed He valued both human genders equally.  

God seems to have patterned the human marriage relationship after Himself. God’s plurality that provides different roles for the members of the Godhead was explained in some detail in the commentary, Genesis 1: Origin and Authorship, “The nature of God”. Similarly, the human couple were separate beings who were one in marriage and God intended them to likewise share an inseparable harmonious loyalty.  God had different intended roles for the two married humans so He created and made them, respectively, with their different personalities and bodily anatomies to suitably function in their roles. The humans were unclothed when they lived in God’s idyllic garden and they were innocently satisfied to be that way.   

Adam named his wife “woman” meaning “from man” when she was created, and made from his body. (v23). Genesis 3:20 recorded that Adam later gave her the personal name “Eve” that meant “the mother of all living”. Personal names recorded in the Bible nearly always had a meaning.

W. Cook

Independent researcher June 2025

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