What was God's message to Adam and Eve during the six days of creation?

Answer 1

A:It is hard to see any connection between the first biblical creation story in Genesis 1:!-2:4a, and the second one which follows. It is in the first creation story that God took six days for creation, but man (both male and female) was only created at the very end of the sixth day as the very last act of creation, after which God rested. In the context of this story, God could not have given Adam and Eve any message during these six days.

True, God did create Adam as his very first act of creation in the second creation story, but here there is no mention of six days and Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that we must scrupulously avoid reading into the second story any facts or notions taken from the first.

Another answer

In Genesis 1:28ff God blesses the man and woman and tells them:

- be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth.God gave man a mandate to subdue creation and have dominion over it-to use it but not abuse it.

- He has given them every herb and fruit for food.

This was not during the first six days man was created on the sixth day

Answer 2

This confuses two very different creation stories. The six days of creation are in the first creation account (Genesis 1:1-2:4a), in which man (both male and female) is created last of all, after all other creations. Adam and Eve are in the second creation account (Genesis 2:4b-25), in which man (Adam) is the first of creation and Eve is last. Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that we must scrupulously avoid reading into the second story any facts or notions taken from the first, and vice versa. Therefore, we must not read the six days into the second story, or Adam and Eve into the first.

In the second account, God could certainly talk to Adam as he continued his creation, however long that took, but not to Eve. God had no message for Adam and Eve during the six days of creation that we find in the first creation story, but he did tell the unnamed persons he created on the sixth day to go forth and multiply.

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