''Ge 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam named called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.'' Adam records that God brought all the animals based on their behavior [reputation]to him to name. <ref>Ge 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.</ref> These behaviors  Archeologist found clay tablets which suggest that the phrase "these are the generations of" is actually an author's signature on a clay tablet. The first instance of this after Adam naming the animals is here::Ge 5:1 ¶ This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;This suggests that Adam recorded the event. <ref>"Ancient Records and the word play from their names teach about learning: Who should we learn Structure of Genesis", P.J. Wiseman, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1985.</ref> It is exciting to consider that Genesis was written by eyewitnesses to the events rather than being generated by oral tradition and not recorded until Moses. The tablets would have been passed fromfather to son, surviving the flood, and the scrambling of languages at Babel, all the way to Jacob who should carried them into Egypt and handed them to Joseph. Joseph would have put them in the great library of Pharaoh, where they got transcribed onto papyrus.. retaining the signature lines of the authors as the tablets were copied end to end. Later Moses, raised in Pharaoh's home would have had access to them, and likely carried a papyrus copy to the desert with him.  Adam records that he named the animals. What can we not learn fromthis?Adam had language, it was Hebrew. God spoke to Adam in Hebrew. The words in Hebrew had meaning. He called them by their 'reputation'. In Hebrew 'reputation' and 'name' are the same word. Being called a Christian does not make you one unless you also have the reputation of Christ. Adam called them by their reputations. This took more than a day to observe them and come up with a name. Fortunately he was likely in a state of timelessness. Oh I know there were 6 days of creation and one of rest. But read Genesis 2:4 carefully. :Ge 2:4 ¶ These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,God created the heavens and the earth in a day and all seven days were in one day. This is only possible if there was not time.  Adam observed the darting fish and called him ''dag'' דג which is 'commanded ד to pursue ג. He observed the massive sides of an ox and called him ''showr'' שׁור which also means 'wall' <ref>07794 ref. 07792</ref> as we study the dietary law, we will use all the tools that the New Testament authors have taught us and the names of the animals since they represent the reputation of those animals.