What was God thinking? [according to the book of Genesis]?

Actually, in the first creation story in Genesis, God does create both male and female, and blesses them, and tells them to be fruitful and multiply, and spread over the earth, and put it under dominion. [Genesis 1:26-28]

But in the second story, God creates the Man first -- at a time when, according to the account, no shrub had appeared nor plant sprung up and not even rain had watered the earth -- then planted a garden with trees to bear fruit for food, and placed the Man in it; then, noticing the Man is alone, he makes all the animals and finally the woman. [Genesis 2] This story never says explicitly that female animals were made when the male animals were made.

The question isn't: What was God thinking? but What were the storytellers thinking? The two stories aren't at all compatible, unless you assume that the first story isn't talking about the same planet.

i in my view like the Cain and Abel tale. God enjoyed Abel's artwork better than Cains. And the two loving God could have enjoyed each and each sacrifice the two not play favorites. In different words are there particular issues that God favors better than different and could that then result your enterence into heaven??? not the way i see it yet i be attentive to the place you're coming from, yet in addition I ought to have taken into acount what Bible your making use of by using fact the ommission of key terms differences the which skill of the passage. KJV has the two seeming greater as equivalent of their selections yet NIV includes the word, "lots of the fruit" suitable there is my ingredient (equivalent) and your ingredient (one worked tougher) differs not consistent with interpretation yet particularly a translation.

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God created everything in the first six days -

Including Adam AND Eve.

It is all described in ch. 1 of Genesis -

Chapter 2 is a summary of the events in ch 1 . . .

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You forgot the rest of the story. Don't you remember he created Eve too. He said that man should not be alone.