When did God give man Free Will?

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112. I'll say it another way

It's impossible to write a story in Hebrew without the characters having metaphorical names, usually with multiple possibilities. Adam is indeed from the root word for earth, but that root word also means red. Which could mean it's really a metaphor for the striking red sandstone of Jordan(biblical Edom, from the same root)
but never intended as a metaphor for earth at all, but rather that the Garden of Eden was in Jordan. Which would have been obvious to nomadic shepherds 3,000 years ago, but totally obscure to settled agriculturalists in Israel a few centuries later, let alone, us.

Without that original cultural context, and given that all names in Hebrew may have multiple metaphorical meanings, how could what the intended metaphor is?