ntain two narratives of
the Creation, side by side, differing from each other in most
every particular of time and place and order."[5:2]

Bishop Colenso, in his very learned work on the Pentateuch, speaking on
this subject, says:

"The following are the most noticeable points of difference
between the two cosmogonies:

"1. In the first, the earth emerges from the waters and is,
therefore, _saturated with moisture_.[5:3] In the second, the
'whole face of the ground' _requires to be moistened_.[5:4]

"2. In the first, the birds and the beasts are created
_before man_.[6:1] In the second, man is created _before the
birds and the beasts_.[6:2]

"3. In the first, 'all fowls that fly' are made out of the
_waters_.[6:3] In the second 'the fowls of the air' are made
out of the _ground_.[6:4]

"4. In the first, man is created in the image of God.[6:5] In
the second, man is made of the dust of the ground, and merely
animated with the breath of life; and it is only after his
eating the forbidden fruit that 'the Lord God said, Behold,
the man has become _as one of us_, to know good and
evil.'[6:6]

"5. In the first, man is made lord of the _whole earth_.[6:7]
In the second, he is merely placed in the garden of Eden, 'to
dress it and to keep it.'[6:8]

"6. In the first, the man and the woman are _created
together_, as the closing and completing work of the whole
creation,--created also, as is evidently implied, in the same
kind of way, to be the complement of one another, and, thus
created, they are blessed _together_.[6:9]

"In the second, the beasts and birds are created _between_ the
man and the woman. First, the man is made of the dust of the
ground; he is placed by _himself_ in the garden, charged with
a solemn command, and threatened with a curse if he breaks it;
_then the beasts and birds are made_, and the man gives names
to them, and, lastly, after all this, _the woman is made out
of one of his ribs_, but merely as a helpmate for the
man.[6:10]

"The fact is, that the _second_ account of the Creation,[6:11]
together with the story of the Fall,[6:12] is manifestly
composed by a _different writer_ altogether from him who wrote
_the first_.[6:13]

"This is suggested at once by the circumstance that,
througho