When the General Statement of Adam Is Followed by Its Detail

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 21:1

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This belongs to the category in which an action is recorded afterward, and that later account is nothing other than the detailing of the first, general statement. How so? Scripture says, "And God created the human in His image" (Genesis 1:27). This is a general statement. After it, Scripture details the doing of it: "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall, and He built up the rib" (as in Genesis 2:21-22), as explained above in section sixteen.

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