1The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. 2On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 3God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
4This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens. 5No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground, 6but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers. 11The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there. 13The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush. 14The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. 15Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it. 16Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
18Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” 19Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. 20The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.” 24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. 25The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.
The Inclusio in Genesis 1:26-28
Genesis 1:26-28 seeks to emphasize three aspects of the creation of humanity. The first portion of this text in Hebrew becomes plain. The emphasis is that male and female, as man, is the creation of God, the word "man" being used generically. Next, the focus is that male and female is in the image of God. Last, the collective "man" is male and female by God's design.
1:27 So God created man: The third time the verb for create is used in ch. 1 (see vv. 1, 21); it is used three times here. The language of 26 and 28 is elevated prose; this verse is pure poetry. The 12 words of the original Hebrew are arranged in three lines that have their own poetic repetition and cadence. The term for man is likely associated with the term for the red earth. Here the word is generic, including male and female. These words are sexual. Some have thought that the “discovery” of human sexuality was the forbidden fruit of Ch. 3. However, these words indicate that human sexuality was a part of the original creation (5:2). Although the misuse of human sexuality is soundly condemned in Scripture (Lev 18), its proper use is celebrated (Song 2:24, 25). Verses 26–28 include the woman no less than the man in the story of creation.
Adam is the name given to the first man in the creation narratives of Genesis. He was the husband of Eve and the father of Cain, Abel, and Seth. The Hebrew noun ’adham means “man” or “mankind” and is usually translated as “the man” in the early chapters of Genesis. These relate the creation of man; his naming of the various animals; the creation of his companion, the woman or Eve, and their expulsion from the paradisal Garden of Eden after disobediently eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, at the urging of the serpent. Expelled from Eden and reduced to a life of agricultural labor, Adam became the father of the ill-fated Cain and Abel, and later of Seth. (See Gen 1:26-30; 2:7, 8, 15-25; 3:6-4:1, 25; 5:1-5; 1 Chr 1:1; Luke 3:38; Rom 5:14; 1 Cor 15:45-49; 1 Tim 2:13,14; and Jude 14).
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The Inclusio Found in Genesis 1:27—God's Creative Work
Genesis 1:26-28 has three foci: the proposal by God in verse 26 of what He would do; the blessing by God in verse 28 after the creative work is done; the major emphasis of God's creative work in verse 27 that God created man in His own image as male and female.