“And the man was intimate with Eve his wife and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and said: I have acquired a man with the Lord” (Genesis 4:1). And the man was intimate with Eve his wife” – “Remember, Lord, Your mercy and kindness, for they are eternal” (Psalms 25:6). They are not from now, but rather, they are eternal. Rabbi Yehoshua bar Neḥemya said: With them You conducted Yourself with Adam the first man, as You said to him: “As on the day that you eat of it you shall die” (Genesis 2:17). Had You not given him one of Your days, which is one thousand years,1Psalms 90:4. how could he have consorted to produce offspring?