The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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them in parallel columns:
ELOHISTIC. --- IAHOISTIC. Order of Creation: --- Order of Creation: First--Water. --- First--Land. Second--Land. --- Second--Water. Third--Vegetation. --- Third--Male Man, only. Fourth--Animals. --- Fourth--Vegetation. Fifth--Mankind; male and female. --- Fifth--Animals. --- Sixth--Woman. In this story male and female man are created simultaneously, both alike, in the image of the gods, after animals have been called into existence. --- In this story male man is sculptured out of clay, before any animals are created, and before female man has been constructed. Here, joint dominion over the earth is given to woman and man, without limit or prohibition. --- Here, woman is punished with subjection to man for breaking a prohibitory law. Everything, without exception, is pronounced "very good." --- There is a tree of evil, whose fruit, is said by Iahveh to cause sudden death, but which does not do so, as Adam lived 930 years after eating it. Man and woman are told that "every plant bearing seed upon the face of the earth and every tree. . . To you it shall be for meat." They are thus given perfect freedom. --- Man is told there is one tree of which |
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