If you remember back in Gen.1:27, God 'created' 'adam' (general mankind, or the races) 'male' and 'female', at the same time. But here in Gen.2:18, this 'eth' Ha'adham' has no female with him. Hold that thought.
Gen 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Did you notice the distinction of this 'forming' every beast, after this Adam was placed in the Garden? I thought that God 'created' all the beasts of the field back in Genesis Chapter 1? There are two possible ways to look at this: (1) The creation of 'adam', or general mankind was on God's sixth day, and this 'eth' Ha'adham' 'forming' is on God's eighth day, which would mean that Genesis 1 through Genesis 2 would flow in a chronological order, and these 'beasts' and 'fowl' are animals 'formed' to help Adam with tilling the soil. Or:... (2) Both the 'adam' or various races of mankind, and the specific 'eth' Ha'adham' were created and formed on God's sixth day, but the specific Adam had a different dwelling, that is, in the Garden of Eden, with domestic type animals, etc., while the other 'adam' or races dwelt outside of Eden, i.e., the land of Nod, and were given the food and wild game of the 'field'. (The word "man" in Genesis 1:27 is also 'eth'Ha'adham' in the Manuscripts, referring to 'the man Adam' along with the Sixth day creation. Thus The Word leads me to hold to the 2nd choice, of God's Sixth day creation of both mankind (races), and 'the man Adam' placed in God's Garden, even though I can also see Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 flowing in chronological order. Each should decide this for themselves, as it is not the most important Message our Lord wants us to grasp within these first Genesis Chapters.
There's another pointer to this separation between 'mankind' (races) and 'the man Adam', with the different aspects of Jacob and Esau's lifestyles given starting in Gen.25:26. It is written there that Esau was 'a cunning hunter, a man of the field', but 'Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents'. Though Jacob and Esau were both born of Isaac, they each symbolize the two different abodes, and 'two manner of peoples' as stated by God back in
Gen.25:23: And the Lord said unto he,” two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Again, God was well pleased with all of His children in the way He created them, so the bloodline of 'eth'Ha'adham' was for Christ's Mission as Saviour in the flesh, and nothing else should be read into this.
For this reason, I feel there is a deeper message hidden within this description between the different 'adams', one (eth'Ha'adham) being specifically placed in God's Garden of Eden, where also the Tree of Life (Jesus Christ) and 'the tree of knowledge of good and evil' (Satan) dwelt. Genesis parallels Revelation on many of these matters, as the Tree of Life is mentioned there again in God's Eternity. The important thing is to note that God placed a separate lineage, the 'eth'Ha'adham', in His Paradise for a certain reason, to provide the 'Seed' of the 'woman', the bloodline of Jesus Christ.
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her Seed; It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel."
