of my bones and flesh of my flesh,” and then called the female “wo-man” (ʾiššâ), for she was “taken out of man” (mēʾîš; 2:23). There is also sameness of function. Both male and female are commanded to exercise dominion over the earth—to “rule over” all of it (1:26, 28) and to “subdue” it (v. 28). The language is significant. The Hebrew term rādâ (“rule”) is used twenty-two times in the OT of human dominion (e.g., Ps. 110:2; Isa. 14:2, 6). The Hebrew word kābaš (“subdue”) occurs fifteen times