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  2. Eve - Wikipedia

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    Eve [a] is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story [1] of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman to be created by God. Eve is known also as Adam's wife. According to the second chapter of Genesis, Eve was created by God by taking her from the rib [2] of Adam, to be Adam's companion.

  3. Adam and Eve - Wikipedia

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    Adam and Eve are the Bible's first man and first woman. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Adam's name appears first in Genesis 1 with a collective sense, as "mankind"; subsequently in Genesis 2–3 it carries the definite article ha , equivalent to English 'the', indicating that this is "the man". [ 9 ]

  4. Lilith - Wikipedia

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    The idea in the text that Adam had a wife prior to Eve may have developed from an interpretation of the Book of Genesis and its dual creation accounts; while Genesis 2:22 describes God's creation of Eve from Adam's rib, an earlier passage, 1:27, already indicates that a woman had been made: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of ...

  5. Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman - Wikipedia

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    The legend (doubtless made to reconcile the two accounts in the Book of Genesis of the creation of woman, the first of which represents her made with man, and by implication, coequal; and the other as created second and subordinate), is to the effect that God first created Adam and Lilith, equal in authority; that the clashing this led to was ...

  6. List of women in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Susanna #1 – a woman who was nearly sentenced to death due to false adultery accusations before being saved by Daniel. Daniel; Susanna #2 – A follower of Jesus. Luke [188] Syntyche – Christian of the church in Philippi mentioned with Euodia [189]

  7. Eve's Diary - Wikipedia

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    "Eve's Diary" is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar , in book format as one contribution to a volume entitled "Their Husband's Wives" and then in June 1906 as a standalone book by Harper and Brothers [ 1 ] publishing house.

  8. Mashya and Mashyana - Wikipedia

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    In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla were the first man and woman, created from trees and given various gifts of life by three gods. According to Benjamin Thorpe " Grimm says the word embla, emla, signifies a busy woman, from amr, ambr, aml, ambl, assidous labour; the same relation as Meshia and Meshiane, the ancient Persian names of the first man ...

  9. Tz'enah Ur'enah - Wikipedia

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    The Tz'enah Ur'enah (Hebrew: צְאֶנָה וּרְאֶינָה ‎ Ṣʼenā urʼenā "Go forth and see"; Yiddish pronunciation: [ˌʦɛnəˈʁɛnə]; Hebrew pronunciation: [ʦeˈʔena uʁˈʔena]), also spelt Tsene-rene and Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the Women's Bible, is a Yiddish-language prose work whose structure parallels the weekly Torah portions and Haftarahs used in Jewish prayer ...