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The second creation account in Genesis (2:4b-2:25) says that Eve was the first woman God created - some time after he created Adam. However, Jewish scribes long ago noticed that the first creation account (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) also states that woman was created at the same time as man ("both male and female"). The two creation stories should be read independently of each other, scrupulously avoiding reading into the second story any facts or notions taken from the first.

However, a rabbinic tradition is that this first woman was Lilith, and that she was Adam's first wife. She left him and flew away because Adam would not let her be on top during sexual intercourse. In this interpretation, Yahweh created Eve in the second story because Adam was still single and needed company. By means of two relatively recent traditions, one obvious inconsistency between the two creation accounts has been rationalised. In Hebrew mythology, Lilith was the Demoness of desolation, obsession, and madness.

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