2 Nephi 9 (Part IV)

2 Nephi 9:21 For behold, he suffereth the pains of all men, yea, the pains of every living creature, both men, women, and children, who belong to the family of Adam. Jacob says, every living creature and then goes on casually enumerating who/what that includes. His list comprises only humans. For Jacob, every creature means every human. I bring this up because I have not quite come to a solid understanding in my own mind about what was happening with all the plants and animals during the 6 days of creation and the time subsequent to creation before the fall. Lehi told Jacon in 2 Nephi 2:22 if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever, and had no end. Was Lehi also speaking specifically of Humans? Bruce R. McKonkie said that there was no growth, offspring, or death in anything, plant, animal, or human prior to the fall of Adam, and that he brought death upon those things by his choice as well. I'm pretty sure he uses the 2 Nephi 2 reference as his justification. Given the context of 2 Nephi 9:21, did Lehi mean only humans? It's reasonable to assume that Jacob would learn to speak of things in the way he did from listening to his father speak of them. We do read in scripture that the plants grew and the animals were commanded to reproduce, but Adam and Eve were also commanded to reproduce and didn't do so until they were mortal. In a book by Skousen called The First Thousand Years, he asserts that Adam was unique from the plants and animals on this earth in that Adam was created of the substance of the earth while the plants and animals were brought here from another source.
The reference in Moses 3, where it says, man became a living soul, the first flesh upon the earth, the first man also is a little more enigmatic, but the chapter goes on to a completely different chronology of creation than the one we get in Genesis, Abraham, and the temple, i.e. Adam is created first, then the Garden of Eden with its two trees, then the animals are created, (out of the ground, I might add) and then Eve comes. Moses covers it up by saying, the Lord God created all things...spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth. But he goes on to say that the reason he did that was because he had not caused it to rain upon the face of the earth, which I find to be an extremely odd justification for not creating things in the same order as the rest of scripture says.