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Genesis 2:20

And the Red-one is summoning names to the whole of the Behemah, and to the Flying-one of the Dual-Heavens, and to the whole living one of the Field. And for the Red-one the surrounding-help has not found according to his opposite.95

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Adam's Brothers

Strong’s #5048, neged, in front of, in sight of, corresponding to. “Eve” is saying something about the sons who become conformed to the same image (Rom. 8:15, 29)—replicas, reflections, twins.

This is the first act of Yahweh elohim “causing to come in toward Adam” yet no counterpart opposite is found. This is not a narrative of a man needing a lady but of type and antitype. In Adam’s dead sleep (curse of the law), Yahweh elohim performs his second act when Adam’s rib is taken out of his “middle” and built up and “caused to come in toward Adam.” The obvious sense of this word is that of a reflective opposite as illustrated in the Proverb,

“Like the dual-water-ones of the Faces to the Faces—so is the heart of the Adam to the Adam.” (Proverbs 27:19 RBT)

The preposition ל in Proverbs 27:19, “to the Faces” is often used in Hebrew to denote something becoming or possessing. Two “contradictions” or “opposites” become something new altogether. This use of the preposition is common in many contexts, i.e. “and she [Sarah] has become to nations” (Gen. 17:16 RBT)