Textual chaos in the Book of Genesis.

In the Book of Genesis, in the Old Testament, we learn about Creation and how God made mankind:

 

[1:26] Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
[1:27] So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

 

It is clear that humankind was created in the image of God; and God made man and woman simultaneously; yet this narrative changes in Chapter 2 and quite a different story is told about the Creation of humankind. The latter text is a kind of an illogical intervention to the sense of causality which is present in Chapter 1. In terms of textual cohesion, it is obvious to the reader that the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis do not necessarily hold together.