X-Dreamers
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Genesis 2
God rests on the seventh day. The story then looks closer: the LORD God forms the man from the dust, plants a garden in Eden with the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and builds the woman from the man's side.
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Adam: “Man”, humankind; the text plays on adamah, “ground”, the dust he was formed from.
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In Genesis 2:7 the man becomes a living being; he is not given a soul as a separate part.
The same phrase, nepeš ḥayyâ, describes the animals in Genesis 1:20 and 1:24.