God created a world where all things—including words—have roots, so the strangest stories in the Bible can be understood if we are willing to get our hands dirty and do a bit of digging.
The book of Genesis is all about the fruit of the womb and the fruit of the ground. Both of these have seed, flesh, and skin, so it is no wonder that the ancients, in their quest for fertility, conflated the two in their efforts to evade the Adamic curses.
