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This order may help more:

1. (GEN 2)
   Adam is given food to eat from the trees of the garden and a prohibition on one of the garden trees. (Gen 2:16-17)
2. (GEN 2)
   Eve is created. (Gen 2:22-25)
3. (GEN 1:28)
   Both are told to be fruitful and increase. Ofcourse this cannot be a command that’s only given to the man, now could it?!
4. (GEN 1:29)
   Both are given permission to eat from all trees on the earth that have fruit with seed. So Adam now has more to eat than just from the garden trees. (1:29)
5. (GEN 3:2,3)
   Eve gives her testimony that God gave them a prohibition.

Basicaly my point is, Gen 1 is not intended to be read in between Gen 2 and 3.

GEN 1
28 God blessed THEM and said to THEM, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said, “I give you (PLURAL) every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Perhaps Mark, you have a better idea of WHEN God told BOTH to be fruitful and increase in number if not “in between chp 2 and 3? The information within the chapters are meant to be integrated since they tell of the one and only time, the beginning.