GENESIS 2

Q: The accounts in chapters 1 and 2 have some redundancies, the most prominent of which is rehashing the creation of man and woman. Why revisit this in a separate chapter?

 

One answer to your question is that the most general description of creation is given in 1:1, a more

 specific one in Genesis 1:2-2:3, and the most specific one in Genesis 2:4-25. This follows the Jewish

 rabbi Hillel's rule for exegesis called "the general and the particular." This is also the pattern often used

 in early Egyptian inscriptions. Another possible answer is that Chapter 2 is a later series of events dealing

 with  one particular human couple created separately, Adam and Eve.