And on the seventh day God rested from all his work which he had made. Therefore God said, “The seventh part of men shall be idle: though they desire to work, yet shall they be paupers; for none shall hire them. And every one that is hired shall work without ceasing, lest he be cast out among the paupers, and a pauper take his place.”
. . . And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said unto the woman, “This is my garden. If thou wilt toil therein, thou shalt pay rent; and whosoever will pay more rent than thou, the same shall have thy portion of the garden in thy stead.”
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall become a burden upon the State, and no woman shall accept him for an husband; for he hath no place to toil.
— Genesis 2:2–3,21–24; Neoclassical
Economists' Version
[first published Feb.24 & Mar.16,
2002].