Merrick wrote: Genesis, Chapter 1, verse 27, says that God created Man and Woman together, after making all the animals.
Genesis, Chapter 2, verse 7, has God creating Man before the plants and the animals. Adam walks around a while, lonely. Then Woman is created out of Adam's rib in verse 22.
That's right: two different creation stories.
The first woman, according to the older Hebraic mythology, was Lilith.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith
Edited out by the Roman Catholic church, back when they were compiling their take on things.
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