The Creation of Eve from Adam's rib

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The Book of Genesis mentions sleep in the account of the Creation.

God causes Adam to fall asleep in order to remove one of his ribs for the creation of Eve.

No ordinary sleep is meant but an unusually deep sleep (tardema in Hebrew).

The scene is depicted on the magnificent reliefs of the Duomo di Orvieto in Italy. Details 

Genesis 2,21-22: "So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man."

 

 

 

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