What did Adam say when he first saw Eve?

Answer 1

The book of Genesis doesn't share with us Adam's and Eve's first words. All we know are the first words that are recorded. For example, Adam's first recorded words regard Eve [2:23]. He explains that Eve will be known as 'woman', because of being made from 'man'. Eve's first recorded words regard her explanation to the sinister serpent about God's commandment against eating the forbidden fruit [3:2-3]. She says that God told the couple that their death would be the result of eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Answer 2

God told Adam to cultivate and care for the vegetation in the Garden of Eden. Adam was encouraged to eat of everything in the Garden except for the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God said that Adam would expire if he disobeyed this divine command. Eve was encouraged to keepthe lonely Adam company. Adam was told to make himself onewith his wife. God said that the sinister serpent, Eve, and Adam would be punished for disobeying the divine command against eating of the forbidden fruit. The sinister serpent would slither disgracefully along the ground, and to the disgust of all life. Eve would suffer great pain in childbirth. Adam would sweat profusely while working just to survive. God said that the couple's god like knowledge of good and evil wouldn't be united with a god like eternal life. And so God vetoed human access to Eden's Tree of Life by posting a 24/7 guard.

Answer 3

The Bible does not actually record any conversations between Adam and Eve. In the Bible as written, they only ever talk to God or to the snake. However, it is very likely that they converse off of the record. For some ideas on what those conversations may have been about, see below.

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BUT DID ADAM AND EVE EVER TALK TO EACH OTHER?

Genesis 2:23 records Adam's words spoken when God introduced the woman to him. And although Adam was quite expressive, including the statement that this new creation would be called 'Woman', his comments seem to be more 'exclamatory' than being words addressed directly to Eve.

Earlier the Bible records God giving the prohibition about eating from the tree of knowledge to 'the man.' (Genesis 2:16-17) This seems to have been before woman was created. Later, the woman quotes that prohibition to the snake. How did she know what God had told Adam? Maybe Adam had told her.

Later in the account God questions Adam, and subsequently condemns him for 'hearkening' to the voice of his wife (Genesis 3:17). Although we have no record of her precise words , the fact that Adam listened to his wife's voice i.e. 'was persuaded by' what his wife had said, indicates that she must have spoken to him.

A few verses later it tells us that, just before the expulsion of the couple from the garden of Eden, Adam began calling his wife 'Eve'... (Genesis 3:20)

Answer 4

One thought:

There's no way of knowing what God's actual 'first 3 words' were to Adam....but at Genesis 1:27-2:20 some of God's earliest words to Adam ARE recorded:

**"Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

**"I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground-everything that has the breath of life in it-I give every green plant for food."

**"You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die."(NIV)

Answer 5

It was surely before this (perhaps immediately after being created or transported to the Garden) verse but this is inferred that Adam spoke:

Genesis 2:19

Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adamto see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

And here it is recorded of him speaking of Eve or women in general:

Genesis 2:23New King James Version (NKJV)

23 And Adam said:

"This is now bone of my bones

And flesh of my flesh;

She shall be called Woman,

Because she was taken out of Man."

Answer 6

"This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."(Genesis 2:23 KJV)

Answer 7

"Be fruitful and increase in number: fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

Answer 8

Palindromes are sentences that read the same forwards or backwards, and the answer to this is a well known palindrome. You can read it forwards or backwards.

"Madam, I'm Adam"

Answer 9

the 2nd step of faith is in death so run for this rock