Eve

### Aliases

Eve, Mother Of Sin, Sinner, Mother Of Life, Mother Of Freewill, The Heavenly Mother, Mary, Second Lilith, Female Adam, Daughter Of God, First Woman, Primordial Woman, The Woman, Eveel, Sophia, Barbelo, Life, Sin, Woman Of Stars

### Affiliations

Heaven, Eden (Formally), Earth, Humanity

**Eve** is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman, yet some debate within Judaism has also given that position to Lilith.

She was the woman put in eden with Adam, but when the serpent came to the eden Eve was manipulated by him and ate the forbbiden fruit, so she and her husband were expeld from the eden, by the God Of Hebrew Bible.

## OVERVIEW

Created on the sixth day with her husband, she completed the creative work of God. He had created the two of them as "man," that is, "mankind." Equal in being with the man, she had every bit of the "image and likeness" of God. However, she had been created to be a "helper fit for" her husband. She could provide the companionship that no other creature could offer and the ability to help Adam fulfill the command to "be fruitful and multiply."

At the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil she found a serpent who talked to her. The serpent deceived her and made her doubt God—and tempted her to eat the forbidden fruit. She did so, and having done so, she gave some to Adam which triggered the Fall of the human race into sin. A consequence of this rebellion was her being cursed to have pain in childbirth, and desire to be in control of her husband who would rule over her.

She would have two sons soon after the expulsion from the garden — Cain and Abel — only to lose Abel some time later to her firstborn's murderous hand. At the age of 130 years old, she would set the record for birthing a child, never to be excelled in recorded history. Nothing else is known from the Bible about her subsequent life.

## HISTORY

On the sixth day of The Creation God created the first man, named Adam. God placed the man in the Garden of Eden and commanded him not to eat fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. After this commandment, God proclaimed (perhaps to himself or to Adam; as he referred to Adam in the third person) that he would create a suitable helper, since it was not good he was alone.

God had created many animals that each had other members of their kind. After Adam went through and named each of the animals he discovered there was not suitable helper for him. In fulfilment of his promise Adam was put into a deep sleep and took a rib and formed the first woman out it. Eve was brought to Adam by God and when the man saw the helper suitable for him he greatly rejoiced and she was given the title of "Woman", for she was of his own flesh.

After the Woman was created she and her husband, who had both been made in God's image were asked to reproduce, fill, and subdue the Earth. The Woman and her husband may have begun procreating right away or waited some time.

Nevertheless at this time the Woman was naked in the Garden, yet she felt no shame.

While living in the Garden, the Woman approached by a serpent who questioned if God had really forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. She in turn misquoted God by telling the serpent that mankind had been forbidden to take fruit from the middle of the garden (rather than just of the Tree of Knowledge). Even before the Wife of Adam gave her response she was already being tempted. In the temptation the woman saw that the fruit was beautiful, appeared delicious for consumption and it would be beneficiary to be as wise as God. Eve was deceived but Adam, the male, was not deceived. He chose the fellowship with his fallen wife before his fellowship with God. They discerned they had lost their fellowship with God and hid, realizing they were naked. When God confronted Eve and her husband she gave all blame to the serpent, for having tempted her. Eve was in turn blamed by Adam.

In punishment God made the woman's childbearing extremely painful, and that her desire would be for her husband who would rule over her.

As a result of the pronounced curse of painful childbearing and Adam's reestablished authority over the woman, he named her Eve as she would be the mother of all living humans. Then Adam was banished from the Garden of Eden, and so Eve went with her husband.

Sometime after the banishment Eve was made pregnant by her husband and eventually gave birth to Cain. In joy she said that with the help of God she had brought forth a man. Sometime later Eve bore Abel. As Cain and Abel grew up Eve had many other children during this time. The offspring of these people would later become a source of fear for Cain, when he was sentenced to be a nomad after killing Abel.

At the age of one-hundred and thirty, Eve yet again conceived with Adam. She gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for another child had been born in place of Abel. Though nothing is known of Eve after she bore Seth it is known that Adam had other children born to him (would've been from Eve). She did so to obey God's command that she would need to bear children and have them fill the Earth.

## APPEARANCE

The Bible does not provide a specific physical description of Eve. She is characterized more by her role as the first woman, created from Adam's rib as a companion. Descriptions of Eve often emphasize her significance in the biblical narrative, focusing on her creation, relationship with Adam, and the events in the Garden of Eden rather than specific physical attributes.

However, there are claims that Eve was depicted as a red-headed woman with luminous eyes, standing at 6.1 feet, adorned in a dress crafted from heavenly leaves, and crowned.