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Head of First Eve
Undismayed by his failure to give Adam a suitable helpmeet, God tried
again, and let him watch while he built up a woman’s anatomy: using
bones, tissues, muscles, blood and glandular secretions, then covering
the whole with skin and adding tufts of hair in places.
The sight
caused Adam such disgust that even when this woman, the First Eve,
stood there in her full beauty, he felt an invincible repugnance.
God
knew that He had failed once more, and took the First Eve away. Where
she went no one knows for certain.
Genesis Rabbat 158, 163 -64 |
