In lines 2:21 God performs an operation. He puts Adam to sleep and takes a rib out of him to make woman. Two things I think are important here. This is the first instance where God takes a human form in our imagination. A human form that descends upon Adam and actually performs surgery. We will see this when a guy named Jacob actually wrestles with God, in the Old Testament and again surprisingly when God impregnates Mary in the New Testament. So in very rare cases God communicated with man by actually assuming some kind of organic form and changing the physiology of man or woman.
The second fact is that Adam ( which means man) and woman are still not individuals they do not have names. It is only after Eve, takes the fruit and her punishment that Adam names his wife Eve. Eve in the first person in the bible to receive a name as a individual unto her own. Adam stays generic. Eve gets named. Again woman rule.
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