s; whence it is that we Celebrate a rest from our
labors on that day, and call it the Sabbath, which word denotes rest in
the Hebrew tongue.

2. Moreover, Moses, after the seventh day was over[1] begins to talk
philosophically; and concerning the formation of man, says thus: That
God took dust from the ground, and formed man, and inserted in him a
spirit and a soul.[2] This man was called Adam, which in the Hebrew
tongue signifies one that is red, because he was formed out of red
earth, compounded together; for of that kind is virgin and true
earth. God also presented the living creatures, when he had made them,
according to their kinds, both male and female, to Adam, who gave them
those names by which they are still called. But when he saw that Adam
had no female companion, no society, for there was no such created, and
that he wondered at the other animals which were male and female, he
laid him asleep, and took away one of his ribs, and out of it formed
the woman; whereupon Adam knew her when she was brought to him, and
acknowledged that she was made out of himself. Now a woman is called
in the Hebrew tongue Issa; but the name of this woman was Eve, which
signifies the mother of all living.

3. Moses says further, that God planted a paradise in the east,
flourishing with all sorts of trees; and that among them was the tree
of life, and another of knowledge, whereby was to be known what was good
and evil; and that when he brought Adam and his wife into this garden,
he commanded them to take care of the plants. Now the garden was watered
by one river,[3] which ran round about the whole earth, and was parted
into four parts. And Phison, which denotes a multitude, running into
India, makes its exit into the sea, and is by the Greeks called Ganges.
Euphrates also, as well as Tigris, goes down into the Red Sea.[4] Now
the name Euphrates, or Phrath, denotes either a dispersion, or a flower:
by Tiris, or Diglath, is signified what is swift, with narrowness; and
Geon runs through Egypt, and denotes what arises from the east, which
the Greeks call Nile.

4. God therefore commanded that Adam and his wife should eat of all
the rest of the plants, but to abstain from the tree of knowledge;
and foretold to them, that if they touched it, it would prove their
destruction. But while all the living creatures had one language, [5] at
that time the serpent, which then lived together with Adam and his wife,
shewed an envious dispositi