who “brought her to hā-ʾādām” (2:22b). Although the words “Yahweh brought … to the earth creature” are repeated from episode three (2:19), they carry a radically different meaning here. In the preceding episode, after God formed the animals from the earth, the deity brought them to hā-ʾādām “to see what it would call each one and whatever it called each one, that was the name” (2:19bc). In other words, the earth creature was specifically given dominion over the animals through naming. Similar power