to go forth from the earth (2:6). Both are Canaanite ideas. The water is not the enemy who must be expelled that the world might arise. Rather, it is the friend without which the field would not bring forth. It is the blessing of God.40 Genesis 2, again characteristically, reflects this meditation on nature. In Genesis 1 the divinity overcomes the water. In Genesis 2 he creates it. The myth of Genesis 1 would, however, be completely understandable in Babylon.41 In connection with this, it is instructive