- Yahweh creates the heavens and earth, no details provided
- Yahweh waters the earth and creates man from clay, followed by a garden.
- Man is assigned to tend the garden for Yahweh, but He realizes man is lonely and needs help and companionship, so creates animals
- Adam does not find a helper from the animals, so Yahweh creates woman
- They gain knowledge by heeding the advise of the serpent
- A river flows from Eden branching into four.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
[OT] Hebrew Jahwist cosmogony
Hebrews, The Jahwist tradition c 950 BC (Genesis 2:4-23)
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