Just a thought — a continuation …

In the Bible, from the start, God is a given. He precedes everything, but also coincides with everything. What he creates first is a beginning, or rather the beginning. A start implies a finish. Between them lies the vastness of time.

God creates the beginning by  separating earth from heaven and light from darkness, thus establishing the fundamental complements of night and day. Sounds rather Taoist, actually.

I suspect there is more, both metaphysically and psychologically, to the account that follows of God's staging and casting of the world he has made, but it seems clear that the point of the narrative is God's involvement with the creature he makes in his own image. 

"Male and female he created them," and in that order.  Speaking of order, it is definitely worth noting that God warns Adam off the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (a catchphrase for everything, its moral implication ambiguous) before making Eve. 

Also interesting is that, while they are told they will die if they eat the fruit of the forbidden tree, it is not until they have done so that they are told what this means, that they will "return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." 

They were reduced to materialists.