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Biblical typology
Genesis 2:21-22 read as the pattern of every creative act: the Lord God (man) casts a deep sleep on Adam and fashions woman from his rib, showing that creation happens in a state akin to sleep and from the one substance man has, himself. Adam names the creatures (Genesis 2:19).
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Bible wordings
Genesis 2:21-22 | And the Lord God (man) caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman
Genesis 2:19 | Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof
Own wordings
they dramatized the first creative act of man as one in which man was in a profound sleep
Adam begetting the woman out of himself
You are Adam, the first man, still in the profound sleep
there is no record where he was ever awakened from this profound sleep