needs and their need for purpose and guidance. He gives them food to eat and gives them the responsibility of exercising dominion over the animals. Their food comes to them in the form of plants, and therefore without violence, and their work is regularly interspersed with rest, and therefore without greed and exploitation. Their living environment is beautiful, and God gives them free range within it, with merely one limitation. The first man and woman, moreover, like all men and women after them,
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