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Originally Posted by Brother V
Genesis 1: 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Then when you look in Genesis 2, there is the seventh day.
Genesis 2: 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
After that, in Genesis 2, God creates Adam.
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
So, if you read Genesis chronologically, you see that on day 6 he made man; on day 7 he rested; then he later made Adam.
As to your other post; we aren't told if Abel's firstlings were sacrificed, we are only told that they were offered to the LORD.
Granted, the verse says he brought the fat thereof; but that could have referenced the fatter sheep.
The next offering that was mentioned in the Bible was from Noah.
Genesis 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
The interesting thing is that we aren't told the difference between clean and unclean beasts yet.
Hope this helps;
YIC
V
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In many scriptures, man is is as a plural. If one reads this passage as a child would, 'man' would mean many not just Adam and Eve. Therefore man and women would indicate that the world was populated by many.
Of course as the Bible is the word of God, and as mortals we can not know God, all this is speculation as to what God really meant.
GLORY!