Adam and Eve the new world is as sinful as the old, God has resolved never again to destroy the world by flood, and the History ends with Terah, the father of Abraham, from whom will descend God's chosen people, the Israelites. Adam and Eve are the Bible's first man and first woman. Adam's name appears first in Genesis 1 with a collective sense, as "mankind"; subsequently in Genesis 2-3 it carries the definite article "ha", equivalent to English "the", indicating that this is "the man". In these chapters God fashions "the man" ("ha adam") from earth ("adamah"), breathes life into his nostrils,
Eve of the "Elohim" account, were two separate individuals: Eve and Lilith. Midrash Rabbah Genesis VIII:1 interprets "male and female He created them" to mean that God originally created Adam as a hermaphrodite. In this way, "adam" was bodily and spiritually male and female. God later decides that "it is not good for "adam" to be alone", and creates the separate beings, Adam and Eve. This promotes the idea of two people joining together to achieve a union of the two separate spirits. The creation of Eve, according to Rabbi Joshua, is that: "God deliberated from what member He would create