Eve Adorned as a Bride and Fashioned to Be Modest

"And He built." He adorned her like a bride and brought her to him. Do you suppose He brought her to him from beneath a single carob or a single sycamore tree? Rather, after He adorned her with twenty-four kinds of ornaments, He then brought her to him. This is what is written, "In Eden, the garden of God, you were, every precious stone" and so on. And He made for them walls of gold and chairs of precious stones and pearls. "And He built." He considered from where to create her. He did not create her from the head, lest she be frivolous; nor from the eye, lest she be a starer; nor from the ear, lest she be an eavesdropper; nor from the mouth, lest she be a chatterer; nor from the heart, lest she be jealous; nor from the hand, lest she be light-fingered; nor from the foot, lest she be a gadabout; but from a modest place on the man, for even when he is naked that place is covered. And over each and every limb that He created He said to her, "Be a modest woman." Yet even so, "you spurned all my counsel" (Proverbs 1:25). I did not create her from the head, yet she carries her head high, "and they walk with outstretched necks"; nor from the eye, yet she is a starer, as it is said, "with wanton eyes"; nor from the ear, yet she is an eavesdropper, as it is said, "and Sarah was listening" (Genesis 18:10); nor from the heart, yet she is jealous, as it is said, "and Rachel envied her sister"; nor from the hand, yet she is light-fingered, as it is said, "and Rachel stole" (Genesis 31:19); nor from the foot, yet she is a gadabout, as it is said, "and Dinah daughter of Leah went out" (Genesis 34:1); nor from the mouth, yet she is a chatterer, as it is said, "and Miriam spoke" (Numbers 12:1). "And He brought her to the man." Happy is the citizen whose groomsman is the King. "And the man said, this time" (Genesis 2:23). At first He created her for him, and he saw her full of fluids and blood, and removed her; then He created her for him a second time. This is why he said, "This time."