pinklight

Hello Mark,

Regarding ‘ha’adam’, we know in 3:9 it can only be referring to one man (not Eve) since the very next verse reveals this- only the man responds. However in immediately after the banishment, who is introduced, Adam and Eve- both of them. So the context helps determine who is intended, in 3:9 only the man, in 3:22ff both of them.

You just said here that in 3:9 ‘ha’adam’ refers to one man excluding Eve. So who’s being refered to in 3:19 when God is still talking to the one man? The same one man is being refered to, right? Is it the same one who was taken from the ground being refered to in 3:23?

3:17
To Adam he said…
3:19
By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were TAKEN;

3:23
So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been TAKEN.

Adam specificaly says that woman was “taken” from man in Gen 2. (Same Hebrew words). The bible makes it very CLEAR who was “taken” from what or who.