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Some look at the first creation account in Genesis (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) and see that man (both male and female) was created last of all, on day six. This account is not the account of the creation of Adam, but was written long afterwards by a different author. It should not be understood as preceding the second creation account (Genesis 2:4b-25) in time.

The second creation account says that Adam was created first, although Eve was still the last creation of all. God created nothing before Adam in this account, as every plant was already in the ground before it grew, because God had not caused it to rain upon the earth (Genesis 2:5).

Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that pious readers, believing that the text cannot contain contradictions, ignore the major disjunctions between the two creation stories and tend to treat the second story as the fuller, more detailed account of the creation of man (and woman). Nevertheless, he says that we must scrupulously avoid reading into the second story any facts or notions taken from the first, and vice versa. To learn about the creation of Adam as it was intended to be understood, we must read the second creation story only.

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