Genesis Chapter 2: From Programming to Planting

Continuing the question posed in chapter 1, chapter 2 looks like a rehashing of the creationstory. Many of the things created in chapter one, seem to be created here as well, but indifferent order and with different details. If chapter one, as explained there, is the creationof the programming, chapter two is the physical manifestation of that programming. Asopposed to chapter 1, chapter 2 is filled with actual physical verbs. In chapter one, Godcreates man “And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him;male and female He created them” (1:27). In chapter two, however, God forms manand blows life into his nostrils: “the LORD God formed man   from the dust of the earth. Heblew into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.” (2:7). In chapter 1,“And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation: seed-bearing plants, fruit trees of everykind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so” (1:11). In chapter 2, Godalso plants the garden and places man into the garden: “The LORD God planted a gardenin Eden, in the east, and placed there the man whom He had formed” (2:8). In chapter one,God says that the sky and sea should bring forth birds and fish (1:20), and the land shouldbring forth animals (1:25). In chapter 2, God forms the animals and birds: “And theLORD God formed out of the earth all the wild beasts and all the birds of the sky, andbrought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called eachliving creature, that would be its name” (2:19). The programming that God created inchapter one, is now physically placed into the world. The abstract has now become reality.