In the same way that God prepares a special place for Adam and Eve, a place they will be driven out of if they are disobedient, so too, He promises first Abraham, and then the whole nation of Israel a special place, that they will be driven out of if they are disobedient. In fact, both are sent the same direction, to the east, when they do disobey. The blessings and curses that form so much a part of the later books of the Pentateuch, can now be seen as being foreshadowed in God's initial command to Adam and Eve. As an Old Testament scholar, Sailhammer makes short work of the argument. Parallelism and meter.
Parallelism is the use of two lines to express the same idea in two ways.
These express the same thought in two related ways. Hebrew poetry also has a certain meter, where either the number of words or symbols will be approximately the same between two lines. Our world, however, cannot be traced back to the divine act of creation. Science and history will always be separated from the divine acts of creation. You will have to read all of Dr. Sailhammer's provocative book to make up your own mind.