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Relationships, recapitulated and extended:
- Relationship to God: to till and keep the garden.
- Relationship to God: to obey a single restriction.
- Relationship to creatures: dominion, naming.
- Fresh relationship: creation of woman.
God formed a portion of the man into a woman, to remind him of what she was and should be, a part of himself. Men have a duty toward the woman and a special relationship.
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