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Why are there 2 Genesis creation stories? Is Adam's first wife Lilith? Is God's name YHWH pronounced YeHiWaiHi?

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  This is the transcript to my Youtube video with the same title.   Genesis 2: 1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God [Hebrew: ’ĕ·lō·hîm ] ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Genesis 2: 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day [Hebrew: yō·wm ] that the Lord God [Hebrew: YHWH ’ĕ·lō·hîm ] made the earth and the heavens, In Genesis 2: 1-3 it is very clear that God, or Elohim, ended the work of creation on the seventh day. And according to Genesis 1 this work started on the first day. Thus, it is believed that Elohim took six days to create everything. But why does Genesis 2: 4 say that YHWH Elohim created the earth and the heavens in just one day   [Hebrew: yō·wm ]?   By