{"id":180,"date":"2020-12-02T16:16:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T16:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/?p=180"},"modified":"2021-03-03T20:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:47:29","slug":"adam-and-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/2020\/12\/02\/adam-and-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam and Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 2<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Adam and Eve<\/em>: Genesis. 2:7-9, 18-24&nbsp;<em>Symbols:<\/em>&nbsp;tree, man, woman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><sup>7&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>then the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;God formed man from the dust of the ground,<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Gen.+2%3A7-9&amp;version=NRSV#fen-NRSV-38a\"><sup>a<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>&nbsp;and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.&nbsp;<strong><sup>8&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>And the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.&nbsp;<strong><sup>9&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>Out of the ground the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><sup>18&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>Then the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;God said, \u201cIt is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.\u201d&nbsp;<strong><sup>19&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>So out of the ground the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.&nbsp;<strong><sup>20&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Gen.+2%3A18-24+&amp;version=NRSV#fen-NRSV-51a\"><sup>a<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>&nbsp;there was not found a helper as his partner.&nbsp;<strong><sup>21&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>So the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.&nbsp;<strong><sup>22&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>And the rib that the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.&nbsp;<strong><sup>23&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>Then the man said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis at last is bone of my bones<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and flesh of my flesh;<br>this one shall be called Woman,<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Gen.+2%3A18-24+&amp;version=NRSV#fen-NRSV-54b\"><sup>b<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for out of Man<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Gen.+2%3A18-24+&amp;version=NRSV#fen-NRSV-54c\"><sup>c<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>&nbsp;this one was taken.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><sup>24\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/December-2nd-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/December-2nd-1024x791.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/December-2nd-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/December-2nd-768x593.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/December-2nd-1536x1187.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/December-2nd-1568x1212.jpg 1568w, http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/December-2nd.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2&nbsp;Adam and Eve: Genesis. 2:7-9, 18-24&nbsp;Symbols:&nbsp;tree, man, woman 7&nbsp;then the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;God formed man from the dust of the ground,[a]&nbsp;and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.&nbsp;8&nbsp;And the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.&nbsp;9&nbsp;Out of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/2020\/12\/02\/adam-and-eve\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adam and Eve&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sothwy.org\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}