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is driven from the Garden of Eden for, says Yauveh Elohim (C'h. Ill, 22), 

 ' Behold the man has become like one of us to know good and evil," ex- 

 actly as the serpent had foretold in the same chapter (verse 5) : "for Elo- 

 him knows that on the day of your eating therefrom, your eyes will he 

 opened and you will be like Elohim knowing good and evil. 



"In Chap. II, 27, man is created, male and female. 



" In the second account woman appears only after a surgical operation. 



" In the first account the birds appear on the fifth day, the wild beast 

 and domesticated cattle at the beginning of the sixth day, after which fol- 

 lows the creation of man, male and female. 



"In the second account Adam is first made alone, in a manner to which 

 we find no reference in the first account. Then the ' heast of the field and 

 the fowls of the Heaven' are made by Yahveh Elohim from the ground 

 before woman is created. Mark also, that first beasts and then fowls are 

 made by Yahveh Elohim himself, out of the ground, in the same way as 

 Man ; but in the first account the fowls are produced, at command on the 

 fifth day, out of the water, and beast and cattle are brought forth by the 

 earth on the sixth day. 



"The first account knows nothing of the Garden of Eden, of the four 

 rivers, of forbidden fruit, of the naming process and of matrimony. 



"The second does not mention the creation of heavenly bodies, of the 

 fishes and 'whales,' and of creeping things. It knows nothing of 'festive 

 seasons ' and of the Sabbath. 



" In the first account Man is given unlimited control over the whole 

 earth and all animal creation; in the second he is simply the gardener of 

 Eden." 



He next discusses the difference between Elohim and Yahveh Elohim 

 as names for the Creator, and infers that the first account was penned by 

 an Ephraimite, and the second by a Levite, who omitted mention of the 

 Sabbath because the Levitic tendency was to refer all festivals to the Exo- 

 dus, the Sabbath included (see Deut. 5: 15); whereas the Elohistic Sab- 

 bath was an adaptation from the planetary (Saturn) worship of pre-Levitic 

 times. "The Hebrews were undoubtedly Zabeans in the early stages of 

 their development; in evidence of which we have the word Shabbah, to 

 swear, from Shebbah, seven ; i. e., swearing meant to call the seven stars 

 or gods to witness. We find Amos (5: 20) reproaching them with worsl.ii> 

 ol Keeyun, Saturn." 



"The Yahvistic account has a different object in view. When it was 

 committed to writing the priestly dominion must have been already very 

 pronounced." " We hear Yahveh declare (ii : 5) that the wickedness of 

 man was great on the earth, and the instinct of the imaginations of his 

 heart was only evil day by day/' "Cain and Abel bring sacrifices " (4: 3,4). 

 "In the history of Noah we find the distinction of clean and unclean 

 beasts. " 



" From the geographical notices (v. 10, 14) we may learn that the trade 



