The Role of a Woman, According to the Bible
It is not surprising that the difference in the versions of the creation account has been used for many centuries to relegate women to a lesser role and substantiate a male dominated culture. In the tablet of the Ten Commandments, it is written “thou shalt not covet their neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet their neighbor wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is they neighbor’s,” thereby lowering woman as a possession of man, one whose importance is gleaned from her man, as in the case of Adam and Eve (Deut 5:21).