INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS CHAPTER 2
a) attaching the last 4 verses of the story of creation by the Powers,
b) onto the beginning of Chapter 2 which is the start of the story of the LORD YHWH?
This was to support their notion that there was only one god and also where they got the FALSE NOTION that the LORD YHWH was the only true god of the earth! A ‘Lord’ is also someone who serves a higher master... someone who has a privileged position of authority.
{When "Lord" (adon) is used of individuals in positions of authority, power, or honour, they are often called an adonim, out of respect. This plural seems to mean "sovereign of all, great lord, honourable master." Abraham, Joseph, David and Elijah are each called an adonim. Even the Pharaohs in Genesis are so named. The royal marriage song — Psalm 45 — directs the bride: "The King will desire your beauty; because he is your adonim, bow down to him" (v. 11, Heb. v. 12). (Excerpt taken from an article written by Paul Sumner}
The LORD YHWH obviously had a very high position of authority under The Powers as His title of LORD was all in capital letters which would denote that he was higher than all other Lords or was considered to be the LORD of Lords by Moses and the Jewish Nation.
This can be seen in the Book of Job chapter 1 verse 6;
6/ It came to be the day when the Sons of The Powers took their places in the Court of Heaven in the presence of the LORD YHWH, etc...
YHWH is pronounced ‘Jehovah’ in English.
YHWH became YaHoWaH with the introduction of English vowels to make it pronounceable. It was then changed to JeHoVaH after the letters J and V were introduced to the English Alphabet. (But I will continue to use Yahweh throughout the rest of my rendition and will not attribute the upper case LORD to him but will downgrade it to Lord... my reasons will be made clear later!)
Jehovah /dʒɨˈhoʊvə/ is a Latinization of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה, a vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible, which has also been transcribed as "Yehowah" or "Yahweh".
יְהֹוָה appears 6,518 times in the traditional Masoretic Text, in addition to 305 instances of יֱהֹוִה (Jehovih). The earliest available Latin text to use a vocalization similar to Jehovah dates from the 13th century.
Most scholars believe "Jehovah" to be a late (c. 1100 CE) hybrid form derived by combining the Latin letters JHVH with the vowels of Adonai, but there is some evidence that it may already have been in use in Late Antiquity (5th century). The consensus among scholars is that the historical vocalization of the Tetragrammaton at the time of the redaction of the Torah (6th century BCE) is most likely Yahweh, however there is disagreement. The historical vocalization was lost because in Second Temple Judaism, during the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE, the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton came to be avoided, being substituted with Adonai ("my Lord"). (Compliments of Wikipedia)
Genesis chapter 2 verse 5 begins the story of the Lord Yahweh and how he chose a piece of barren earth to create a garden to put his ‘Mud Man’ into. (It is my belief that this is the ancestry of the Jewish Nation ONLY as the rest of the nations on the planet are the descendents of the males and females that the Powers created hundreds of thousands of years BEFORE the Lord Yahweh created his Mud Man!)
Genesis 2
Enter the Lord Yahweh.
5. When the Lord Yahweh began to tend the ground there was neither shrub nor plant growing wild; for the Lord Yahweh had not yet caused it to rain on the earth.
6. But there went up a mist from the land, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7. And the Lord Yahweh formed a man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living creature.
8. And the Lord Yahweh planted a garden eastward
of Eden; and there he put the man who he had formed.
9. And out of the earth in the garden the Lord
Yahweh made every tree grow that was
pleasant to the sight and good for food;
placing the tree of life in the middle
of the garden as well as the tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
10. And a
river that came out from Eden to water the garden divided into four
tributaries after it left the garden.
11. The name of the first tributary is Pishon (pronounced Pison): this is the river which encompasses all of the land known as Havilah, where there is Frankincense (gold);
11. The name of the first tributary is Pishon (pronounced Pison): this is the river which encompasses all of the land known as Havilah, where there is Frankincense (gold);
12. And the Frankincense of that land is good;
there is Gum Resin (bdellium) and the cornelian (onyx stone), are also to be
found there.
13. The name of the second river is Gihon; this
is the river which encircles all the land of Ethiopia (Cush).
14. The name of the third river is Tigris
(Hiddekel); this is the river which runs east of Assyria (Asshur). And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15. The Lord Yahweh took the man he had made and put him in the garden east of Eden to till it and to care for it.
16. And the Lord Yahweh told the man, “From every
tree in the garden you may eat
freely;
17.
but from the Tree of Knowledge of
Good and Evil you must not eat... for on
the day that you eat from it you
will surely die!”
SUMMARY
It looks
like the Lord Yahweh was in the position of caring for the earth under the
authority of The Powers like a gardener. It was also he that made it rain as
prior to that, ‘there went up a mist from the land, and watered the whole face
of the ground.’
It was from this very ground, or earth, that he decided to create his own Mud Man and, ‘breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living creature.’ Did the Lord Yahweh get sick of having to do all the work?
In verse 15 it says he put his Mud Man into the garden, ‘to till it and take care of it’... literally rendering Mud Man as his own personal slave to do the work that he was supposed to be doing for The Powers. (This is the reason that I downgraded the LORD YHWH to Lord Yahweh!)
The Lord Yahweh also planted the garden with all the trees that The Powers made available to him but he chose only those that looked good or were good for food. He also placed the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge in the centre of the garden... it doesn’t say that he created these trees, or any other tree, so they must all have been created and provided by The Powers for him to plant in his garden... This is presuming that he had the authority to create his own garden and Mud Man in the first place!
It was from this very ground, or earth, that he decided to create his own Mud Man and, ‘breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living creature.’ Did the Lord Yahweh get sick of having to do all the work?
In verse 15 it says he put his Mud Man into the garden, ‘to till it and take care of it’... literally rendering Mud Man as his own personal slave to do the work that he was supposed to be doing for The Powers. (This is the reason that I downgraded the LORD YHWH to Lord Yahweh!)
The Lord Yahweh also planted the garden with all the trees that The Powers made available to him but he chose only those that looked good or were good for food. He also placed the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge in the centre of the garden... it doesn’t say that he created these trees, or any other tree, so they must all have been created and provided by The Powers for him to plant in his garden... This is presuming that he had the authority to create his own garden and Mud Man in the first place!
Also... note that it says the garden was ‘to the East of Eden’?
This means that the name given to the garden is wrong as it wasn’t in Eden so it wasn’t of Eden. (A more correct name for it would be ‘The Lord Yahweh’s Garden’ or ‘Mud Man’s Garden’... since it was created specifically for him!)
And also note how the mention of the Euphrates River is tacked on after the description of the location of the third river, the Tigris in verse 14, and is not given a location or its own separate mention like all other 3 rivers? What was Moses trying to hide?
There are also some major contradictions concerning the Lord Yahweh;
1/
The Lord Yahweh told his Mud Man that he could not eat from the tree in the centre of the garden.
But, ALL seed bearing plants had already been given to the ‘males and females’ that The Powers had created... so who was the Lord Yahweh to set boundaries or limitations?
2/ The Lord Yahweh’s Mud Man would die, ‘on the very day that he did eat it’.
But, the Mud Man lived to be nearly 900 years old and did not die on the very day that he ate the fruit!
3/ Also... the Lord Yahweh put his man in the Garden to, ‘till it and take care of it’
Where-as The Powers said nothing about working... Their command was to, “go forth and multiply (have intercourse) and to rule over all the beasts of the earth!”
The Creation of Eve.
18. Then the Lord Yahweh said, “It is not good that the man is alone. I
will make a helper for him.”
19. So the Lord Yahweh formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the wild birds
of the air; and brought them to the man
to see what he would call them, and whatever the man called each living
creature, that became its name.
20. So the man gave names to all the beasts, to
the birds and to every wild animal; but for
the man himself no helper had been found!
21. So the Lord Yahweh caused a deep sleep to
fall upon the man and while he slept the Lord Yahweh took one of the ribs from out of the man’s chest, then he closed
the flesh over the place instead.
22. Then the Lord Yahweh made the rib that he had taken from the man into a being, and then
he gave it to the man.
23. And the man said: “Now this, at last
-
bone from my bones,
flesh from my flesh! -
this shall be called Ishsha (Strong-Gentle),
for from Ish (strong!) was this taken.”
bone from my bones,
flesh from my flesh! -
this shall be called Ishsha (Strong-Gentle),
for from Ish (strong!) was this taken.”
24. And the man said, “That is why Ish/man leaves his Ab/father and is united to his Ishsha/woman,
and they shall become one flesh!”
25. Now they were both naked, the man and the
woman, but they felt no shame and were not embarrassed in front of one another.
SUMMARY
The Lord Yahweh realises that his Mud Man is lonely but only after he has finished naming all the ‘wild animals that the Lord Yahweh created out of the ground’. Does this mean that the Lord Yahweh expected his Mud Man to find a mate amongst the animals?
I believe it was the Lord Yahweh that created all the carnivores... in opposition to The Powers and all their herbivores. (More on this in the account of Noah)
Once the Lord Yahweh had taken out one of Mud Man's ribs he formed it into another human being. It doesn’t actually say that this being was a female but since it gave birth later on in the story then this is assumed.
And please take note?
It was Mud Man who said that a couple become one flesh... not the Lord Yahweh or even The Powers!
Verse 24 explanations - The Hebrew word for father is just "Ab", pronounced "Av", which means "the one who gives strength to the family." The word "Abi" is the more familiar form, with the meaning "MY father" Abba is a Hebrew/Aramaic hybrid word, attaching the formal ending –a, to the end of the Hebrew word Ab, effectively turning it into a singular formal noun: THE Father.
Adapa was a mortal man from a godly lineage, a son of the Sumerian God Enki (Ea), the God of wisdom and of the ancient city of Eridu, who introduced the arts of civilization to that city from Dilmun. Adapa broke the wings of Ninlil, the South Wind, who had overturned his fishing boat. He was called to account before Anu, the God of the Anunnaki people.
Ea, his patron god, warned him to apologize humbly for his actions but not to partake of food or drink while he was in heaven as it would be the food of death. Anu, impressed by Adapa's sincerity, offered instead the food of immortality, but Adapa took Ea's advice and refused, missing his only chance for immortality!
Adapa is often identified as advisor to the first antediluvian king of Eridu, who was called Alulim. In addition to his advisory duties he served as a High Priest and upon his death took his place among the Seven Sages.}
